Interpersonal demonstratives as stance markers: From joint attention to speaker-hearer engagement

This paper recaps some major findings in research on demonstratives from a social cognition perspective anddraws attention to their development from basic uses as spatio-logophoric deictic elements to more sociointerpersonal uses. We first review key studies on the use of demonstratives to demarcate the speaker’s sphereof interest or influence (e.g. Enfield 2003; Gonzalez Perez 2023), and on their use as interactional devices tomanage interpersonal relationships in individual languages (Heritage 2012; Stivers 20xx; Yang, in press) and crosslinguistically (Evans, Bergqvist & San Roque 2017a,b). We then open the floor for all panel contributors and theaudience to discuss how the demonstratives in their individual languages are deployed as markers of thespeaker's ‘territory of information’ (Kamio 1994) and ‘device for managing interlocutor alignments’ (Du Bois2007).