Mémoires de Fin d’Etudes
Etablissement
Université de Mostaganem - Abdelhamid Ibn Badis
Affiliation
Département d’Anglais
Auteur
Ouali, Farida
Directeur de thèse
Bel Abbes Nddar (Maitre de conférence)
Filière
Sciences du Langage : Didactique du Texte
Diplôme
Magister
Titre
A discourse pragmatic oriented approach to Pinter’s drama
Mots clés
discourse, pragmatics, Pinter’s drama, cooperative principle, conversational maxims, speech acts, presuppostion, conversational implicature, politeness staregy.
Résumé
The central aim of the present work is the study of the pragmatic unsaid lying beneath any discussion. It is an application of a pragmatic analysis to dramatic texts to find out whether an analysis of discourse using a pragmatic approach can help explaining the meaning which we perceive in dramatic texts. The model used is Simpson’s (1997). This model, however, will explore the nature of dialogue and investigate the structure of verbal interaction. It will, as well, assess some of the strategies that speaker and hearer use in conversation. The model will be applied to Harold Pinter’s Trouble in the Work (1959) and Betrayal (1978) for the sake of interpreting these plays from the pragmatic perspective. In more focused sense, the study will be concerned with how the interaction is structured and how the conversational contributions of Pinter’s characters are connected to convey meaning. The rational for selecting Pinter is that this British playwright is regarded as the predominant figure of the Absurd Theatre. Moreover, Pinter’s theatre was transformed into “Theatre of Language” for he created a language of himself, a language-as Pinter has said- “where under what is said, another thing is being said”.
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