M. Iriskulov, A. Kuldashev a course in Theoretical English Grammar Tashkent 2008

Temporal deixis refers to the time relative to the time of speaking: now, 
then, today, yesterday, tomorrow, etc. 

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Textual deixis has to do with keeping track of reference in the unfolding 
text: in the following chapter, but, first, I'd like to discuss, etc. Most of the text 
connectors discussed above belong to this group. 
Social deixis is used to code social relationships between speakers and 
addressee or audience. Here belong honorifics, titles of addresses and pronouns. 
There are two kinds of social deixis: relational and absolute. Absolute deictic 
markers are forms attached to a social role: Your Honor, Mr. President, Your 
Grace, Madam, etc. Relational deictic markers locate persons in relation to the 
speaker rather than by their roles in the society: my cousin, you, her, etc. In 
English, social deixis is not heavily coded in the pronoun system. 'You' refers to 
both - singular and plural. As well as in the Uzbek language, English possesses 'a 
powerful we': We are happy to inform..., In this article we... 
Inter-sentence connections have come under linguistic investigation but 
recently. The highest lingual unit which was approached by traditional grammar as 
liable to syntactic study was the sentence. However , further studies in this field 
have shown that sentences in continual speech are not used in isolation, they are 
interconnected both semantically and syntactically.
The first scholars who identified a succession of such sentences as a special 
syntactic unit were the Russian linguists N.S. Pospelov and L.A. Bulakhovsky.
N.S. Pospelov called the unit in question a “complex syntactic unity”,
L.A. Bulakhovsky termed it a “super-phrasal unity”. M.Y. Bloch suggested the 
term the “supra-sentential construction”. In the course of study it has been stated
that sentences in speech come under broad grammatical arrangements and combine 
with each other on strictly syntactic lines in the formation of the text. 
The general idea of a sequence of sentences forming a text provides its two 
distinguishing features: semantic (topical) unity and semantico-syntactic cohesion. 
Semantic unity implies that a text as a succession of sentences centers on a 
common informative purpose. Semantico-syntactic cohesion interprets the 
sentences in a succession as syntactically relevant.
Sentences in a sequence can be connected either prospectively or 
retrospectively. Prospective connection is effected by connective elements that 
relate a given sentence to one that is to follow it. A prospective connector signals 
a continuation of speech: the sentence containing it is semantically incomplete, 
e.g.: And now let us switch onto the next topic. The environmental protection.
Retrospective connection is effected by connective elements that relate a given 
sentence to the one that precedes it and is semantically complete by itself. 
Retrospective connection is the basic type sentence connection in ordinary speech,
e.g.: The man hit the ball. The crowd cheered him on. 
On the basis of the functional nature of connectors, sentence connection can 
be of two types: conjunctive and correlative. Conjunctive connection is effected by
conjunction-like connectors: regular conjunctions (coordinative and subordinative) 
and adverbial or parenthetical sentence-connectors (then, yet, however, 
consequently, hence, besides, moreover, nevertheless). Conjunctive connection can 
be only retrospective, 
e.g.: Carter was upset and angry. But remained firm.

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