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التحول الاشاري والتبئير في رواية (محبوبة) لتوني موريسون : دراسة اسلوبية ادراكية == Deictic Shifting and Focalization in Morrison's Beloved : A Cognitive Stylistic Study
Author name:
اسلام عادل جبار
Supervisor name:
عادل مالك خنفر
General topic:
Foreign Languages
Specific topic:
English - Applied Linguistics
Degree:
Master
University:
University Of Basrah - College Of Literature - Department Of English Language
Language:
English
University location:
Basrah
First pages:
06T1094 - p.pdf
Abstract:
Narrative texts create imaginative worlds that resemble the real world in its components. Deixis assist the reader to enter the fictional world and to follow up its happenings, time, space, contradictions, modifications and opinions as if he were really experiencing them in the real world. In addition, deixis are important because they bring forward the contextual information which is crucial for understanding the narrative. They are essential to shift the Deictic Centre in order to follow the progression of persons, places, times, and to shift the focalization level in the story.Deictic expressions are significant in making it easy to comprehend the contextual information of incidents, characters' traits and to understand the temporal and spatial dimensions in the text. This study attempts at discovering how it is possible to recognize shifting in focalization level by pinpointing the shifting of the Deictic Centre in narrative texts. Therefore, it considers three types of deictic expressions : person, time and place.These three types of deictic expressions are related to deictic operations which work on introducing, maintaining and shifting the Deictic Centre. In narrative, all the deictic expressions are tied to those operations. The main focus of the study is to investigate the relationship between the shifting operation of the Deictic Centre in Morrison's Beloved and its effect on the focalization level which is either internal or external. In addition, the researcher studies how DC shifting affects shifting the focalizer and the focalized by shifting theperson deixis. Primarily, the researcher combining two theories to cover both the deictic shifting operation and the focalization. The first is the focalization theory proposed by Mieke Bal (2004) to detect the shifting in focalization level by linguistically tracking the shifting of the DC in Beloved and the second is the Deictic Shifting Theory proposed by David Zubin and Lynne Hewitt (1995).The current study aims to prove the possibility of combining both theories and applying it to Beloved which is a postmodernist novel written with an intense use of deictic expressions, constant shifting of focalization and flashbacks; therefore, the novel is appropriate to the examination of the combination of the two theories.
