M.A. (Afrikaans) / A comparison between the narrative-fictive discourse situation and the canonical discourse situation reveals differences as well as similarities between the two modes of discourse. Every act of utterance occurs in a spatio-temporal context whose centre or zero point coincides with the speaker's here and now. The literary discourse is conducted on more than one level and this introduces more than one context into the universe of discourse. The existence of two contexts has marked implications for the use of deictic terms in the narrative text. In the first chapter of this study the deictic categories of person, time and place in the canonical situation-of-utterance is placed alongside the same categories in the narrative-fictive discourse situation. It is established that a primary as well as a fictive deictic centre exists in the latter. The second chapter deals with the structural function of the deictic categories in the narrative text of Die kremetartekspedisie. There is a continual shift between the narrating-self (the origo of the primary deictic centre) and the experiencing-self (origo of the fictive deictic centre). The pronominal reference remains in the first person and it is at the spatio-temporal level that the shift between the two selves is effected...