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Abstract
The current thesis proposes a pragmatic analysis of the function of language in Kevin Powers’s The Yellow Birds based upon a pragmatic point of view. Pragmatics comprises constituents that administer and direct those linguistic preferences from the available choices in the language as far as social interaction is concerned. Moreover, it spotlights the effects of these preferences on interlocutors. Since it is a systematic way of explaining language use in context, it is motivated by the purpose of explaining aspects of meaning which cannot be found in the plain sense of words or structures, as explained by semantics. As an influential arena of language study, pragmatics and 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, among others. This thesis proposes a pragmatic analysis of the central and overriding themes in Kevin Powers’s The Yellow Birds via deixis and indexicals, implicatures, and speech acts.