Deixis in Edgar Allen Poe's the tale-tell heart : a pragmatic analysis study

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The proposed research attempts to explore the notion of 'Deixis' in pragmatics as well as it analyses deictic elements utilized in the utterances from the selected literary text Tale- Tell Heart by Edger Allen Poe.

It also examines how the deictic elements govern the contextual meaning in the utterances from the pragmatic orientation.

Pragmatics is a subfield of linguistics that explores the meaning of the utterances governed by the speech situation.

The study of the contextual meaning of the utterances in pragmatics is done through the analysis of deictic elements used in the utterances.

The deictic elements utilized in the utterances by the conversational participants play a significant role in pragmatics to interpret the meaning of the utterances.

Thus, the notion 'Deixis' is one of the core aspects of pragmatics as deictic elements help in understanding the situational meaning of the utterances encoded by the conversational participants in the linguistic exchange.

The main objective of the study is to study the concept of 'Deixis', to make an investigatory analysis of deictic elements used in the literary text The Tale -Tell Heart by Edgar Allen Poe and explore the meaning governed by these deictic expressions.

The hypothesis of the present research is that 'The deictic elements used by Edger Allen Poe in The Tale- Tell Heart facilitates the contextual meaning of the literary text'.