Principles of the pragmatic approach to literary text

Abstract

This study aims at classifying the pragmatic theory, by identifying the most important perceptions included in this theory, and the most important critical implications that it contains. For this purpose, the researcher relied on the descriptive analytical approach to describe the phenomenon, that is, the perceptions of pragmatic theory and analyzed each of these perceptions. In this context, seven of these perceptions were discussed in the first section of the study: first: from the sentence to the text, second: the importance of the communicative dimension in the literary text, third: the communicative phenomenon in the literary text, fourth: speech acts in the literary text, fifth: Purposefulness in the literary text, sixth: dialogical imperative and mechanisms of meaning production, seventh: the persuasive argumentative dimension in the literary text. As for the second part of the study, it was assigned to the approaches of the pragmatic approach for literary discourse, and five basic concepts were addressed: context, both internal and external, the communicative function of language, and the concept of intentionality, interpretation, and significance. Finally, the study found a set of results and recommendations that were included in the conclusion.