Treerat, Wipa2017-11-072017-11-071990b1772068http://hdl.handle.net/1885/133318In this study we alm to show explicitly the importance of context to the understanding o f meaning of utterances by investigating linguistic behavior of two deictic terms PAY(go) and MA:(come)l In Thai In three different areas: spatial, temporal and figurative. In this chapter we discuss linguistic complexity relevant to the study of PAY and MA: under the following aspects: (a). PAY-MA: and the issue of homonymy and polysemy (b). PAY-MA: and semantic diversity (c). PAY-MA: and the concept of favoured decontextualized interpretation (d). PAY-MA: and contextual determination of semantic differencevii, 130 leavesenThai language VerbThai language Deixis199010.25911/5d723aaf3ff012017-10-23