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https://ptsldigital.ukm.my/jspui/handle/123456789/497418| Title: | Family discordance in modern American drama: a pragmatic stylistic study of buried child and rabbit hole |
| Authors: | Bakhtiar S. Hama (P48372) |
| Supervisor: | Shanthini Pillai a/p Joseph Sandra, Associate Professor Dr. |
| Keywords: | Family discordance Modern American drama Pragmatic stylistic study Buried child Rabbit hole Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia -- Dissertations |
| Issue Date: | 27-Mar-2014 |
| Description: | This thesis focuses on the stylistics of drama and the genre analyzed is Modern American drama. It specifically aims to study the representation of family discordance through the disintegration of family relationships between members of American families in the selected plays, Buried Child by Sam Shepard and Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire. The analysis focuses on how the playwrights organize the formal elements in particular literary and stylistic devices of the written texts to depict and criticize family discordance and breakdown in the American society. In addition, the study sets out to examine how discordance between the characters affects the language forms and the mood of the conversations in different contexts. To achieve this objective, the study will focus specifically on the language used by the characters to show how the dramatists use stylistic devices to depict and criticize American social phenomena through the dialogues that occur between the characters. The analysis is conducted within the framework of pragmatic stylistics and the focus is on Speech Acts and Cooperative Principle and Implicatures. In each of these findings family discordance was revealed. Through such a framework of analysis, the thesis concludes that each of the selected plays represents the failure of the relationships between the American individuals and the collapse of the family structure in different situations. The implication of this study is that Stylistics can be a useful and significant tool in the study of Drama.,PhD |
| Pages: | 270 |
| Publisher: | UKM, Bangi |
| Appears in Collections: | Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities / Fakulti Sains Sosial dan Kemanusiaan |
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