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PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS OF SHORT STORY THE NEW CONSTITUTION FINDING THE CONVENTIONAL IMPLICATURES

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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/glr.2021(VI-II).31      10.31703/glr.2021(VI-II).31      Published : Jun 2021

Pragmatic Analysis of Short Story "The New Constitution": Finding the Conventional Implicatures

Abstract

    Every literary text has some connotative meaning which is beyond the denotative meaning of lexicons used in it. To unveil the hidden aspect of society is the real intuition of author towards coding the text.This research paper aims to analyze the short story "The New Constitution" by Saddat Hassan Manto.The Pragmatic Analysis of text has been chosen as an analytical framework. Pragmatically, text can be analyzed in many ways. In this research, the use of conventional implicatures (rhetorical devices) in the text has been selected as sub theme. The data have been collected from focused reading of the short story "The New Constitution". For this purpose, 50 sentences have been extracted from the text and the frequencies of the respective implicatures (rhetorical devices) have been noted. The present study meets the determined objectives which have been observed while writing this paper. Contextual inspiration of the text has also been explained which is only possible by finding these rhetorics.

    Conventional Implicatures, Contextual Meaning, Discourse, Pragmatic Analysis, Short Story

    (1) Shunizia Sheikh
    M.Phil. English Linguistics, Department of English, Riphah International University, Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.
    (2) Shahid Saleem
    M.Phil. English Linguistics, Department of English, Riphah International University, Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.
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