Literary pragmatic analysis of William Faulkner's "a rose for emily"

Abstract EN

It is well known that any language comprises two forms: the spoken and the written.

The former is represented by “conversation”; while the latter represents “literature.

” Together, they constitute the way in which humans compose text (Mey, 2009: 787).

The role of pragmatics in analyzing the spoken language is so clear and undeniable when the principles of “conversation analysis” are applied on a conversation.

The question up for discussion in the current study is whether pragmatics can determine any validity or importance for literary works.