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Abstract
The present thesis has analyzed the pragmatics of implicature in Joe Haldeman’s The Forever War (1974) 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 asystematic way of explaining language use in context. It seeks to explain aspects of meaning which cannot be found in the plain 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 on politeness. Thesis Thematic Focus This thesis has concentrated on analyzing implicature in Haldeman’s The Forever War from a pragmatic point of view. The Forever War The Forever War (1974) is a military science fiction novel by American author Joe Haldeman, telling the contemplative story of soldiers fighting an interstellar war between Man and the Taurans. It won the Nebula Award in 1975, and the Hugo and the Locus awards in 1976. Forever Free (1999) and Forever Peace (1997) are, respectively, direct and thematic sequel novels. The novella A Separate War (1999) is another sequel of sorts, occurring simultaneously to the final portion of The Forever War. Informally,