Les démonstratifs et le statut énonciatif des textes de fiction : l'exemple des ouvertures de roman

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Title
Les démonstratifs et le statut énonciatif des textes de fiction : l'exemple des ouvertures de roman
Journal
Langue française
Author(s)
Philippe Gilles
ISSN
1957-7982
ISSN-L
0023-8368
Publication state
Published
Issued date
12/1998
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Number
120
Pages
51-65
Language
french
Abstract
Demonstratives in the first sentences of novels are often considered as non-sequential sequence-signals. But, since opening demonstratives aim at creating an impression of enunciative continuity more than an illusion of referential continuity, one has to describe them first as markers of empathy in a fictitious frame. Then, though their grammatical statuses can be very diverse, opening demonstratives can all be studied in the "deictic-shift" model. We examine here the relevance and limits of such a model, and focus on two extreme cases : what if the deictic center cannot be identified ? what if the different empathy markers seem contradictory ? Opening sentences give us indeed the best opportunity to study the function of demonstratives as empathy markers, to describe the inferential work they require and to understand their being thought as highly "literary".
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