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stration, where the teacher is referring to his/her own body, the here still in-
volves the connotation of intimate closeness to the speaker. The use of there
is substantially less frequent in the current data but deserves a study on its
own, possibly but not necessarily in contrast with here, as these two words
seem to achieve considerably different ends in dance instruction. They are
hardly ever contrasted.
Space deixis may indeed have more to do with social relations than the
actual physical distance. It can be used for indexing and constructing vari-
ous social spaces and speaker roles (Hanks 1990; Laury 1997; Eriksson 2001,
2009), or for indicating shared vs. nonshared attentional focus (Levinson
2004: 110). The here in dance ...