“DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES” – A PRAGMATIC APPROACH
“DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES” – A PRAGMATIC APPROACH

Summary/Abstract: Pragmatics deals with utterances, the intentional acts of speakers at times and places, typically involving language. Pragmatics is sometimes characterized as dealing with the effects of context. This is equivalent to saying it deals with utterances, if one collectively refers to all the facts that can vary from utterance to utterance as ”context”. ”Context” is an all-pervasive concept in pragmatics. The following paper aims at analyzing an excerpt from a famous TV-series, “Desperate housewives” from a pragmatic perspective with a special focus on politeness principle seen as a pragmatic tool.

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