NARRATIVE TENSE ISSUE: FUNDAMENTALS, CONCEPT, AND LEVELS.

Abstract

Tense issue is an ancient one that occupied an important range of human thought and different fields of research such as natural sciences, physics, philosophy, grammar, rhetoric, linguistics and criticism. It was considered as natural phenomenon for being a result of natural movements, philosophers see in it an existential movement, for historians it is a space for historical events, and in linguistics it is morphological and grammatical tense; the first is indicated by the form of the verb out of sentence, the second is the sentence or the context's tense which is not indicated by the isolated word but by the convergence of presumptions in the sentence. Grammarians and philosophers have the same tense definition, both believe in a correspondence relation between linguistic world and natural one on the basis that a temporal relation links man to language. However, linguistics gave a different perspective, Benvenist distinguished between physical tense and events tense, he proposed a notion of linguistic tense that emphasizes the human experience, this tense defines its centre through the discourse actuality.