LITERATURE 3 : A Pragmatic Study of Exaggeration in British and American Novels
Journal of Education and Practice www.iiste.org ISSN 2222-1735 (Paper) ISSN 2222-288X (Online) Vol.7, No.33, 2016
A Pragmatic Study of Exaggeration in British and American Novels
Asst. Prof. Dr. Qassim Abbas Dhayef Al- Tufaili Department of English, College of Education for Human Sciences, University of BabylonFatima Rehman Mkheef Al- Jobori M.A. Student, Department of English, College of Education for Human Sciences, University of Babylon
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This study is to tackle exaggeration in British and American situations taken from Mrs. Dalloway and The Great Gatsby novels. From a pragmatic point of view, exaggeration in the field of literature has not been given enough attention. Accordingly, this study is an attempt to develop a model for the analysis of exaggeration pragmatically. This study is an attempt to develop a model for the analysis of exaggeration pragmatically. Exaggeration is a representation of something in an excessive manner to make it more noticeable, or as being larger, better, or worse than it really is. Exaggeration is a common feature of everyday language use. It has an important affective component which is that of describing, understanding, and evaluating an experience. Studying the exaggerated use of language in the field of literature, specifically novels, is a problem which, to the best of the researcher's knowledge, has not been given enough attention, particularly, from a pragmatic perspective. The speech acts through which the exaggeration language occurs in the British novel, Mrs. Dalloway, are: self- criticism, advice, and assertion. In exaggeration, keeping to the politeness principle is very important otherwise the interactans will be considered to be impolite. In this paper, the pragmatic function of emphasis is amounted to (100%) in the British novel, whereas the functions of manipulation and humour are amounted to (66.7%), and (33.3%) respectively in the American novel. This means that the British exaggerate mostly for the purpose of emphasizing things, yet, the Americans more often exaggerate for the purposes of manipulating and humourizing. Exaggeration can be expressed by any device, that is, it is not particularized only by the devices mentioned in this study which is limited to two novels. The analysis of the data shows that exaggeration is overused so effortlessly in the American English more than the British English. The developed model has been found to be useful for analyzing exaggeration pragmatically in Mrs. Dalloway and The Great Gatsby.
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