A főnévi mutató névmások deiktikus használata a magyar és az angol nyelvben

The paper compares the use of deictic demonstratives in English and in Hungarian. English data are based on a quantitative study of proximal and distal demonstratives in English by Luz and Van der Sluis (2011), data on Hungarian come from an empirical study. Taking as a starting point Piwek et al.'s work on Dutch (2008), I designed an experiment (a controlled dialogue game), where participants worked with Lego blocks of the DUPLO series. Using statistical methods to analyse the empirical data, cognitive factors influencing the choice of demonstratives are tested.