English abstract
In this study we examine the problem of the combination of the research in pragmatics and narrative discourse represented in the narrations of Ali al Ma'amari. Pragmatics deal with the study of the use of language among the elements of discourse, while the narrative discourse tends in its artistic nature to employ fiction in building its worlds away from direct and realistic references. In this study, we sought to benefit from the narrative approach, and to apply some of its meanings in the narrative corpus of Ali Al-Ma'amari, as we reported from the study of spoken narratives, in the fiction, the polyphony, the pronunciation and the subjectivity in the language. Our study was presented in an introduction and three chapters. The introduction dealt with the Omani literary achievements, especially the narrative discourse, and the importance of applying the modern curricula in its academic studies, as well as the reasons for the study, its importance, its problems, its methodology and its difficulties. The first chapter focused on the narrative fiction in the discourse literature, in that the narrative discourse is based on fiction, and its relation of the discourse to the historical, cultural, social, and realistic references; the resliaping of historical material within a special fictional and narrative condition. In this chapter we focused on some of the studies and their relation to fiction such as verbs, references, animations, possible worlds and their connection with the imaginative worlds, and the language of fiction in the discourse. The second chapter focuses on polyphony, its use in discourse, and its relation to the discourse of fiction, the multiplicity of narrators and characters, the diversity of functions, the relations in direct, indirect and free indirect speech, the linguistic diversity in hybridization and stylistics, the presence of poetic language, implied and embedded references, and the use of local dialects. I addressed the ideological diversity of the discourse, the expression of opinions and ideas, the study of parody, irony, and their relation to polyphony. In the third chapter, I discussed the enunciation in the framework of pragmatics, where I studied the speech of the textual thresholds, the textual opening and ending, and their pragmatics roles in the discourse of Ali al-Ma'amari. I focused on the self-narration of the subject speaker through the narrators and characters, and the role of the pronoun, temporal, and spatial dexis. I also studied the subjective and estimated qualities in the discourse from a pragmatics perspective. The chapter concluded by studying the bodies in the discourse, and the role of the Co enunciator and his effects on the addressee
