ABSTRACT
In the previous chapter I have sketched a view of speech and thought representation that radically departs from the mimetic speech model under-lying most linguistic and literary approaches to discourse mediation. In this final chapter it is therefore necessary to demonstrate how the schematic model relates to presuppositions in the standard approach, and how precisely the proposed schematic ‘solution’ resolves the problems encountered in earlier chapters. The areas affected by an espousal of the schematic language model are numerous, and they concern both linguistics and literary theory. I will start with a consideration of the grammatical implications both from a TG point of view and from a pragmatic discourse-analytical perspective. This is also finally the time to confront the problem of how the deictic properties of speech representation (anaphoric vs subjective deixis) can be described in the proposed model, and how-and to what extent-the presentation of consciousness can be compared to the representation of utterances. Both questions provide a final assessment of Banfield’s paradigm in the light of evidence from pre-figural narrative texts, oral discourse and journalism.
