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Abstract
This study presents a pragma-syntactic analysis of African American br fiction, as it sheds light on the African American fiction in general and on br Naylor’s novels The Women of Brewster Place and Linden Hills in br particular. It works mainly on the common area between pragmatics and br systemic functional grammar, as they both are dealing with the inner br meaning of the sentence and the use of language. It is also focusing on br Naylor’s technique and style of writing, her skilful use of imageries, br deviations, figures of speech, especially metaphor. Metaphor is considered br to be a common tool that links pragmatics and systemic functional grammar, br as it belongs to conversational implicature in pragmatics and metaphorical br modes of expression in SFG. So, metaphor can be regarded as an important br linking device between the two areas. George Yule introduced pragmatics in br his book The Study of Language (1996), as the study of the use of language br and meaning, as communicated by a writer and interpreted by a reader. br Thus, pragmatics is appealing; it is about how people make sense of each br other linguistically. Pragmatics deals with what people mean, and the br analysis of their utterances indicates more than what the words or phrases in br those utterances might mean by themselves (127-128). Halliday’s Systemic br functional grammar works on the different parts of the sentence and how br they fit together to give the correct meaning, since any full analysis of the br sentence will take account of both meaning and form, and the links between br them. (Thompson, 2004, p.2)