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Abstract
The present thesis attempts to analyze the function of language in Anthony Trollope’s The Way We Live Now based upon a pragmatic point of view. Pragmatics, to begin with, studies the factors that govern our choice of language in social interaction and the effects of our choice on others. It is a systematic way of explaining language use in context. It seeks to explain aspects of meaning which cannot be found in the Thesis sense of words or structures, as explained by semantics. As a field of language study, pragmatics is fairly new. Its origins lie in philosophy of language and the American philosophical school of pragmatism. As a discipline within language science, its roots lie in the work of Herbert Paul Grice on conversational implicature and the cooperative principle, and on the work of Stephen Levinson, Penelope Brown and Geoff Leech. The thematic focus of the thesis is to concentrate on analyzing the dominant themes in Anthony Trollope’s The Way We Live Now from a pragmatic point of view. The thesis deals with three components of pragmatics : (Chapter Two) Deixis, (Chapter Three) Implicature, and (Chapter Four) Speech Acts.