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Walter De Mulder, « Du sens des démonstratifs à la construction d'univers », Langue française, ID : 10.3406/lfr.1998.6266
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Walter De Mulder : From the meaning of Demonstratives to the creation of discourse worlds. Gary-Prieur and Noailly (1996) argue that some uses of demonstrative noun phrases in literary texts cannot be analysed as anaphoric, since they have no antecedents, nor as deictic, since the indexical ground, the /, here and now of the speaker / writer, is no longer available. Most of these uses signal that the referent is to be seen as part of the universe of a particular character. In my contribution, I argue they are manifestations of the basic token-reflexive meaning of the demonstratives, which demands not only that a referent be identified, but also that a context be set up, linked to the occurrence of the demonstrative. As such, these demonstratives always signal the integration of new information into the discourse : the introduction of a new referent, a change of thematic status, a change of universe, etc., and are deictic expressions according to the definition of deixis proposed a.o. by Bosch (1983).