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Donna E. West, Modern Languages Department, authored the book Deictic Imaginings: Semiosis at Work and at Play (Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics), which was published through Springer Publishing as part of their SAPERE series. An editorial review on the book’s back cover begins with this overview: “This work represents the first integrated account of how deixis operates to facilitate points of view, providing the raw material for reconciling index and object. The book offers a fresh, applied philosophical approach using original empirical evidence to show that deictic demonstratives hasten the recognition of core representational constructs.”