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Abstract
This thesis presents a pragmatic analysis of postmodern fictions with particular reference Donald Barthelme’s two novels; The Dead Father and Paradise. The researcher aims at exploring the pragmatic aspects used by the writer in producing comprehendible sentences to form communicative conversations. Pragmatics is the study of the ability of speakers to communicate more than what is explicitly said. The interpretation of the meanings the speaker intends to convey by using particular words is influenced by some factors as the hearers’ assumptions or the context. Donald Barthelme (April 7, 1931 – July 23, 1989) was an American author known for his playful, postmodernist style of short fiction. He also wrote four novels : Snow White, The Dead Father, Paradise, and The King. Barthelme’s short stories are often exceptionally compact (a form sometimes called ”short-short story”, ”flash fiction”, or ”sudden fiction”), often focusing only on incident rather than complete narratives. Barthelme additionally filled a position of a daily paper journalist for the Houston Post. He also was the director of the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston. And later he lectured as a distinguished visiting professor at some universities, like the College of the City of New York. This thesis is of five chapters. Chapter one highlights the schema of the research by shedding light upon a general introduction of pragmatics and postmodernism. Chapter one also contains a brief introduction of Donald Barthelme and presenting his major works. The researcher in chapter two aims at outlining the major works on the theory of speech acts and shows the application of the theory on the collected data from the two novels by Donald Barthelme. In chapter three, the researcher deals with implicatures as it is introduced by Grice (1957[1975]) and discusses other approaches views to implicatures. The application on the collected data is focused on the conversational implicatures. The collected is from the two novels of Donald Barthelme. Linguistic Im/politeness is what this chapter is concerned with. The researcher presents a historical and theoretical framework of the phenomena and focuses on the strategies of impoliteness in his application on the data collected from the novels by Donald Barthelme. The researcher will point out the results that he reached by analysing the novels by Donald Barthelme via the pragmatic tools.