استخدام الخداع في نصوص ادبية مختارة : دراسة تداولية مقارنة == The use of Deception in Selected Literary Texts: A Comparative Pragmatic Study
Author name:
زينب كاظم ماضي
Supervisor name:
بيداء عباس الزبيدي
General topic:
Foreign Languages
Specific topic:
English - Language
Degree:
Master
University:
University of Baghdad - Ibn Rushd College Of Education For Human Sciences - Department Of English Language
Language:
English
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University location:
Baghdad
Key words:
- Deception
- Speech Act
- Cooperative Principle
- Pragmatics
- Literary
Abstract:
Language plays a vital role in communicating and transmitting information between people, as well as in performing several other important functions, deception being one of them from a biological point of view. The importance of this study in linguistics is related to the wide social use of deception, and to the fact that it is one of the very important themes in literature. However, this field of research did not get what it deserved in research and study. This Pragmatic study aims to explore the theatrical texts of the two historical periods (15thand 20th centuries) in English literature by comparing them to highlight how the authors of poetic theatrical texts use the pragmatic aspects of language such as speech act theory and how to override the Grice principle in order to achieve certain social goals. This study is designed to explore the linguistic features of deception in the Elizabethan era (Shakespeare’s Hamlet) and the twentieth century (Elliot’s Murder in the Cathedral) by comparing the deception methods used in both of them from the standpoint of the theory of pragmatics. The researcher hypothesized that the text of Hamlet uses deceptive language more than the text of Murder in the Cathedral. The second hypothesis is that Grices cooperative principle is overridden in terms of the quality and the manner maxims more than the quantity and the relevance maxims in both plays. The research method adopted in this study is qualitative and quantitative, as it is done by analyzing the selected literary theatrical texts according to the Grice’s cooperative principle and the speech act theory. Then the extracted results are compared quantitatively and qualitatively. This thesis is organized into five chapters. The first chapter reviews the research problem, its objectives, limitations, and significance. The second chapter deals with the theoretical side of the topic and introduces the concept of deception, its types, and its relation to the theory of speech acts and Grice’s cooperative principle. It also sheds light on the most important aspects of linguistic studies developed for the investigation of deceptive methods. The third chapter sets forth a general overview of the selected data. It also presents the model of analysis adopted in this study. The fourth chapter provides data analysis via the model adopted for the poetic theatrical texts that were offered in the previous chapter. The comparative discussion of the results obtained validate that plays in the Elizabethan era employ more deceptive strategies than the plays in the Twentieth Century era. Moreover, the discussion of the results validates that the quality and the manner maxims are more flouted than other Grice’s maxims in both eras. The fifth chapter outlines a summary of the findings obtained in the previous chapter. It also offers pedagogical implications and provides proposals for future research. Finally, a review of the sources used in the study is provided.
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