The present volume seeks to explore the strategies of verbal mendacity and mendacious storytelling used in Shakespeare’s problem comedies All’s Well That Ends Well and Measure for Measure. This analysis is conducted according to a pragma-stylistic methodological framework, presenting a quantitative analysis of linguistic strategies of deception and qualitatively analysing salient textual examples. The choice to lie has to do with the use of language and the construction of meaning; it is a fundamentally pragmatic matter. Yet, untruthfulness in interpersonal communication raises a set of thorny theoretical issues within the current pragmatic framework. This volume proposes an innovative approach to the linguistic theory of lying, outline the strategic pragmatic choices that speakers make in choosing to lie outright or to go off-record. The model of analysis is developed from broadly neo-Gricean perspective of the phenomenon of lying (Meibauer 2005, 2014b, 2014a, 2018; Dynel 2011, 2016, 2020; Fallis 2012), in order to investigate the forms of verbal deception present in the texts. This contribution seeks to add both to the literary and linguistic discussions on the phenomenon of interpersonal deceit.
Telling Tales in Shakespeare’s Drama: A Pragmastylistic Approach to Lying
Aoife Beville
2022-01-01
Abstract
The present volume seeks to explore the strategies of verbal mendacity and mendacious storytelling used in Shakespeare’s problem comedies All’s Well That Ends Well and Measure for Measure. This analysis is conducted according to a pragma-stylistic methodological framework, presenting a quantitative analysis of linguistic strategies of deception and qualitatively analysing salient textual examples. The choice to lie has to do with the use of language and the construction of meaning; it is a fundamentally pragmatic matter. Yet, untruthfulness in interpersonal communication raises a set of thorny theoretical issues within the current pragmatic framework. This volume proposes an innovative approach to the linguistic theory of lying, outline the strategic pragmatic choices that speakers make in choosing to lie outright or to go off-record. The model of analysis is developed from broadly neo-Gricean perspective of the phenomenon of lying (Meibauer 2005, 2014b, 2014a, 2018; Dynel 2011, 2016, 2020; Fallis 2012), in order to investigate the forms of verbal deception present in the texts. This contribution seeks to add both to the literary and linguistic discussions on the phenomenon of interpersonal deceit.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
