Implicature in William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! | ||
| مجلة بحوث کلية الآداب . جامعة المنوفية | ||
| Volume 36, Issue 142.1, July 2025 PDF (912.11 K) | ||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/sjam.2025.382057.2622 | ||
| Author | ||
| غاده سيد ابو بكر* | ||
| كلية الاداب جامعة المنصورة | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The present research has analyzed the functions of implicatures in William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!. The analysis focuses and spotlights the way Faulkner has been able to put his message across and create a virtual three-dimensional world in which the author (the addresser) encodes a message (the locution) with a certain intent (the illocution) in order for the reader to encode the message and act accordingly (the perlocution). It has been found that such pragmatic tools and components help researchers come up with a better understanding of the invisible meanings that so much permeate literary wrings and works of literature. Employing these pragmatic tools has resulted in a new reading of the works under consideration in the present dissertation. That is to say, pragmatics can help analysts and researchers reread and reclassify several works of art much better than otherwise analyzed. The output is a new reading of these works. For example, Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! (published in 1936) is not a mere story of the rebellious Thomas Sutpen against his family as just a reflection of the rebellion of Absalom (the Old Testament son of King David) who rebels against his family. It is via pragmatics that many for-long shelved away books may be reborn and come back to life with new meanings. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Pragmatics; Implicature; Speech Acts | ||
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