DISCOURS FEATURES IN THE NOVEL ”DIMINEAȚĂ PIERDUTĂ”, BY GABRIELA ADAMEȘTEANU

Abstract

The choice of the topic analyzed in our paper is motivated by the
"generosity" that Gabriela Adameșteanu's novel shows, which is considered by most
critics her "monumental" work. Starting from the aspects that investigate the
registers of communication, we felt it necessary to bring into discussion the
pragmatic discursive mechanisms, accommodating the theoretical references to
some examples of text, as much as the size of the work allows us. Indeed, we
addressed the concept of ”discursive space" and the discursive operations (or
communicative functions) that can be carried out within them, supporting them also
with examples of verbal acts emitted by different speakers, but bringing them in the foreground especially Vica Delcă and Ivona, since they are the conversational engine
of the novel. They recount, evoke and give free rein to the flow of involuntary
memory, commenting, appreciating, characterizing the present, but at the same time
reviving people, places, moments and experiences from a past lived or reconfigured
from memories, documents, diaries, objects or simply 'drawn' by their own
imagination. Because theoretical conventions deprive narrative discourse of the
support of trope-like resources, we have also considered the use of figures of speech
in conversation and the particular status of the expressive in speech acts.