Deictic Identification of an Addressee and an Addresser in the Space of a Literary Text (By the Material of André Gide’s Prose)

Abstract

Nomination and identification of a person is made using different linguistic phenomena, among which deixis plays the key role. The article summarizes famous linguists’ viewpoints on linguistic processes within discursive and textual space, which contains the category of indicative signs as a lexical and grammatical means serving to make identifying reference. The fact that deictic markers can perform the identifying function indicating an addressee and an addresser in a literary text is illustrated by the example of the French writer André Gide’s prose.