Pagdato - Pragmatic Stylistics
Pagdato - Pragmatic Stylistics
Pagdato - Pragmatic Stylistics
Stylistics
Discourse
Analysis and
its
Application
in Drama
Critical analysis of a drama text
• Suggests an interpretation
Canonical Form of a Communicative
Event in Drama
through characters
Message
Speech Acts – When we produce
utterances, we actually Do things.
Declaratives(performative)
Representatives
Commissives
Expressives
Directives
Quantity
Quality
Relation
Manner
People who converse follow the Maxims
Violatesit;
Opts out from the operation;
Clashes the maxims of quantity; or
Flouts and blatantly fail to fulfil it
A maxim is exploited to generate the
conversational implicature.
Violation of Conversational
Maxims in Shona
Opting out
Thomas (1995:75) defines opting out as a
situation when a speaker “chooses not to
observe a maxim and states an unwillingness to
do so.”
Example
1. John is unhappy and a friend asks him;
Friend: What’s troubling you these days?
John: Uh, It’s personal.
Violated maxim: Quantity
What could be the implicature?
The hearer can infer here is that whatever is
troubling Speaker B is personal and probably
confidential.
Violation of Conversation in Shona
Maxim Clash
According to Ying (2006), maxim clash
(usually between quantity and quality) occurs
when the speaker presumably means to observe
CP and yet he obviously cannot fulfil one of the
maxims at the same level.
Example
Statingthe obvious
Not an appropriate reply
e.g.
A. Did you enjoy the play?
B. Well, I thought the ice cream they sold in the
interval was good.
Reported by:
Ma. Theresa S. Pagdato