Jill Santopolo's “The Light We Lost”: Speech Act Analysis
Keywords:
Speech Act Theory, Jill Santopolo, The Light We Lost, Pragmatics in Literature, Searle’s Speech Acts, Modern Fiction AnalysisAbstract
In this paper, the researcher examines the American novel “The Light We Lost” according to Searle’s Speech Act theory. Many studies use speech acts theory on political discourse, medical discourse and even on some literary works, but non-has studied Jill Santopolo's “The Light We Lost” according to Searle’s speech act theory or any linguistics theory. Thus, the study tries to fill a gap in the study by answering the following research question
1. Is it possible to apply pragmatics theories to modern fiction?
2. What are the speech act features introduced by Jill Santopolo's “The Light We Lost”?
3. What speech act is used more than others in the selected texts “The Light We Lost”?
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