The ability to communicate about things at times other than the present and about things not directly in front of the speaker is termed: displacement .
The ability of language to communicate about objects that are not immediately present (spatially or temporally), that is, things that are either not here or are not here right now, is known as displacement in linguistics.
People can speak of the past and the future. Displacement is the name given to this feature of human language. In fact, displacement enables us to discuss entities and locations (such as angels, fairies, Santa Claus, Superman, heaven, and hell) whose very existence we cannot confirm.
The speaker may addresses specific people who isn't there, refers to past events, and refers to abstract concepts by making certain sounds in a certain order.
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