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Introduction and Research ApproachOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
The present thesis attempts to offer a pragmatic analysis of Joan Didion’s The White Album and The Year of Magical Thinking by employing the tools of pragmatics. Chapter one introduces the research approach to be followed throughout the thesis. It is an attempt to highlight Didion’s linguistic abilities by employing the tools available to pragmatics. It sheds light on the history and criticism of pragmatics, the difference between both pragmatics and semantics, and the relationship between pragmatics and intonation. Chapter two deals with the idea of Deixis and its different kinds in addition to applying them on some extracts from Didion’s The White album and The Year of Magical Thinking. This Chapter handles also the semantics and pragmatics of deixis. It deals also with the idea of deixis and anaphora and how they are linked together and can’t be separable. A distinction is also made between both indexicality and deixis. This chapter ends by applying the theory of deixis on some extracts from Didion’s The White Album and The Year of Magical Thinking. Chapter three deals with the idea of conversational implicature, the Cooperative Principle, the four maxims, explicit and implicit meaning, and explicature and implicature in addition to applying all these points on some extracts from Didion’s The White Album and The Year of Magical Thinking. Chapter four deals with the theory of Speech Acts and the three main types of acts. A reference is also made to Indirect Speech Acts and its three theories. The chapter ends by applying these ideas on some extracts from Didion’s The White Album and The Year of Magical Thinking. Chapter five concludes the results of the research.