Abstract
It is well known that any language comprises two forms: the spoken and the written. The former is represented by “conversation”; while the latter represents “literature.” Together, they constitute the way in which humans compose text (Mey, 2009: 787). The role of pragmatics in analyzing the spoken language is so clear and undeniable when the principles of “conversation analysis” are applied on a conversation. The question up for discussion in the current study is whether pragmatics can determine any validity or importance for literary works.
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Department of Translation College of Arts Tikrit University Salahuddin Iraq