The theory of assertion opens new possibilities of studying and classifying adverbs of place from the perspective of their functioning in context. Their approach from the discourse perspective reveals the deictic character of some of the components along with the special position that they have within the grammatical structure. The main objective of this study is to describe the manner in which the adverbs of place contribute to the expression of space in the Romanian language, in different types of communication (oral communication and fictional text – I have used Ion Manolescu’s novel, ”Derapaj” as a support for the fictional text). From the communicative point of view, these categories of adverbs represent important elements for an accurate decoding of an assertion and have multiple functions in the discourse structure. Due to the deictic component, a semantic and functional re-analysis of adverbs of place has been requested.