War of the Words: A Pragmatic Study of the Characters' Confronted Discourse in Pirandello's "WAR"
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The novelty of this research is that it links pragmatic markers with the study of discourse, with specific attention on the characters' roles and speech in showing discourse strategies. So, the research paper tackles pragmatic markers, quotation markers, question markers, general extenders, and evidential markers in the characters' discourse in Pirandello's text.
The objective of this paper is to show how the study of pragmatic markers can be of great importance for showing discourse practices. The analysis will also demonstrate the benefits of the amalgamation of pragmatic markers and discourse analysis research. This short story should be seen as a text focusing on political discourse. Such a text is told by politically powerless actors.
There is also a discussion of such pragmatic markers and how they contribute to the characteristics of the discourse of characters in the story. The study of pragmatic markers should be associated with the manipulative manifestations in a discourse. One of the important findings of this study is that any single pragmatic marker may have some important manipulative functions. The present study builds on the findings arrived at in the analysis of Pirandello's story, according to the pragmatic functional spectrum. It considers the findings from the perspective of influential pragmatic intent
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