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This study is an extended version of the previous study of H. W. Song(2011). The former study(H. W. Song, 2011) investigates the spatial and temporal uses of demonstratives in 16 languages and finds that i) in all the languages investigated, spatial and temporal demonstratives are identifiable in three syntactic positions such as adnominal, pronominal and adverbial positions; ii) the temporal use is found in the three syntactic positions; iii) the formal constructions of the adnominal and pronominal demonstratives are almost always identical in their spatial and temporal uses if the sample has the temporal use of the demonstratives. The study also presents a possible explanation for the findings: a conceptual metaphor meaning that the target domain (more abstract such as temporal terms) is understood through the source domain (more concrete such as spatial terms)(Kövecses, 2010). With the findings and the relevant explanatory factor, this current research attempts to present an additional approach to the results of the formal similarities between the spatial and temporal demonstratives: the basic function of demonstratives, joint focus of attention, i.e. the communicative partners’ recognition to the same thing(Diessel, 2006) may cause less change in the demonstrative forms when they are used temporally.