| One strand in the study of literature concerns the construction of narrative voice. Authors use linguistic devices drawn from everyday language to create point of view in works of fiction (Simpson, 1993; Fowler, 1996; Lanser, 1981). This dissertation adds to linguistically-based studies of literary point of view.; Social deixis, the linguistic encoding of relative social status and power (Fillmore, 1975), has been studied within characters' dialogue in novels (Calvo, 1992; Fowler, 1996). It is a natural resource for the creation of point of view, yet it has not been studied in this function. This is a particularly striking lack in languages like Korean, which, unlike English, have a rich inventory of socially deictic morphemes. In this dissertation, address terms and referring expressions are studied within three short stories and two novels, in order to shed light on Korean authors' use of them in the creation of narrative voice.; Social deictic elements in spoken Korean are reviewed as background to the analysis of the texts. They are shown to reflect social hierarchy and status relationships among the speaker, the addressee, and third person referents. Then the short stories and novels are analyzed with respect to a current typology of point of view (Fowler 1996). In this typology, non-socially deictic elements such as modals are used to distinguish four different psychological points of view found in narrative fiction (Fowler, 1996; Simpson, 1993). The distribution of modals in the three short stories and one novel are compared with the distribution of social deictic items, and it is shown that social deixis patterns with the use of modals in predictable ways.; Finally, an analysis of a single novel shows that the use of socially deictic terms plays a role in the construction of the author's ideological position. This analysis of the characters' dialogue and authorial narration is supported by independent evidence from sources outside the novel.; This dissertation argues that sociolinguistic concepts such as social deixis play important roles not only in character dialogues but also in authorial narration, and thus it enriches our understanding of psychological and ideological point of view. |
