Volume 07 Issue 07 July 2024
Asst. Lect. Duaa Qasim Naeem
University of Kufa/College of Education for Women/English Department
DOI : https://doi.org/10.47191/ijsshr/v7-i07-117Google Scholar Download Pdf
ABSTRACT
Pragmatics is the study of the intention of the speaker or writer could have in some uses certain critical aspects. According to the perspective view, macro pragmatics is divided into three groups, the cognitively oriented, the socially and/or culturally oriented and the third group is for issues that cannot be fit within either of the other two groups. Here, the socially oriented group is concerned with social issues such power, language, and ideology considering that power and ideology as socially oriented issues. Within this framework the critical aspect is made clear. The present paper presents a pragmatic analysis of ideological deixis in some American film scripts. More specifically, the aim of the paper is to provide an answer to the following questions: How do deixis discursively uncovered some ideological constructions in movie scripts? Subsequently, to achieve the aim of study, a theoretical survey about pragmatics is presented and this survey is followed by presenting the notion of ideological deixis. The paper has concluded that the concept under study is discursively utilized in Hollywood film scripts to project and aggrandize the American nation as an exceptional nation.
KEYWORDS:Pragmatics, Speech Acts, Deixis, Ideological Deixis
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