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immediately answered. The reader is temporarily frustrated until the
question is answered; eg. "You ask who gave the tree the name of Wad
Hamid. This question the narratee never asked. It could have been
lurking in his mind or, at least, have dawned upon him on the spare of
the moment. Instead of telling the story of how the tree bore the name
of Wad Hamid, the narrator digresses into the episode of the 'stopping
place for the steamer'.
When the narrator finished his narration, the narratee spoke for
the first time and last time: "And when will they set up the water pump
and put through the agricultural scheme and the stopping place for the
steamer? (line 348) The logical answer was: "when the people cease to
see the doum tree in their dreams"; ie. when the younger genaration
receive a good education.
IDENTIFICATION OF ACCESSORY MEANING
Rigorous demarcation lines could be drawn between extended and
accessory meanings. However, both have rhetorical functions, and both
aim at enhancing the stylistic and emotional appeal of the text.
Though extended meaning structures amplify the communicative message of
the text, accessory meaning mechanisms render the message structurally
acceptable to the target reader. The readability of the sour;e text in
the receptor langauge depends largely on the role (s) rhetorical
structures play in the formatting of the text.
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