A Corpus-Based Analysis of Person Deixis as Subjects in Edgar Allan Poe's Short Story 'The Black Cat'

The text, through the use of' deixis', can be linked directly to the surroundings such as the people, topic, time, and so on. person deixis, which is one of the deixis types, concerns the role of participants in the speech event. for the purpose of the study, three of edgar allanpoe's short stories have been selected; 'the black cat'(1), 'eleonora' (2), and 'the purloined letter'(3) .the current paper mainly carries out a descriptive analysis of person deixis as subjects in poe's 'the black cat'. the other two short stories are used as corpus for comparison.