Review article
Pragmatic aspects of a dramatic dialogue in qui pro quo situations
Mia Bagarić
; Posgraduate (Doctoral) Study Program of Croatian Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
In order to be credible and convincing and so as to understand the seriousness and importance of its topic, the dramatic dialogue has to assume all the characteristics of “natural” dialogues. It is the only way for it to show the “reality” of an event. By following a conversational discourse and adopting all of its patterns, dramatic dialogues also assume things undesirable in conversational discourse: indistinctnesses and abstrusenesses. In the context of a literary work of art, of course, it has a certain purpose. In two qui pro quo situations in Držić’s Skup, precisely the usage of linguistic “imperfections”, shown by the disruption of Grice’s cooperative principles and his maxims, by the different usage of Geoffrey Leech’s politeness principle and the related notions of “positive and negative face” by P. Brown and S. Levinson, reveals the meaning of the text taken as a whole.
Keywords
qui pro quo; cooperative principle; politeness principle; “positive” and “negative face”; character comedy; social satire
Hrčak ID:
174615
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Publication date:
1.12.2011.
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