Abstract
M.A. (Afrikaans)
A comparison between the narrative-fictive discourse situation
and the canonical discourse situation reveals differences as well
as similarities between the two modes of discourse.
Every act of utterance occurs in a spatio-temporal context whose
centre or zero point coincides with the speaker's here and now.
The literary discourse is conducted on more than one level and
this introduces more than one context into the universe of
discourse. The existence of two contexts has marked implications
for the use of deictic terms in the narrative text.
In the first chapter of this study the deictic categories of
person, time and place in the canonical situation-of-utterance is
placed alongside the same categories in the narrative-fictive
discourse situation. It is established that a primary as well as
a fictive deictic centre exists in the latter.
The second chapter deals with the structural function of the
deictic categories in the narrative text of Die
kremetartekspedisie. There is a continual shift between the
narrating-self (the origo of the primary deictic centre) and the
experiencing-self (origo of the fictive deictic centre). The
pronominal reference remains in the first person and it is at the
spatio-temporal level that the shift between the two selves is
effected...