Sociocultural identity and alterity represent ideal types of two opposite poles of the same and the other. In real societies we find rather a mixed identialterity - a notion newly introduced by the article.
Identialterity is gradient and conditionned by communicative practices that are both reflexive and, to a a certain extent, constitutive of it. Gradient identialterity of social and cultural groups may be, among other methodological viewpoints, studied and analyzed from a deictic perspective.