A Pragma-Stylistic Analysis of Serafín and Joaquín Alvarez Quintero s' ''Sunny morning''

Abstract

Pragma-stylistic analysis of literary texts contributes to the readers' understanding of those texts as it would be a tool for them to interpret and analyze literary discourse. This paper explores the types of speech acts in the Quintero brothers' ''Sunny morning'' from a pragma- stylistic point of view. It seeks to show the hierarchy of speech acts to know which type is more dominant than the other. Data analysis shows that representatives score the highest percentage which is (60.93%). Next, directives occupy the second level with (24.37%). Then, expressives are found as they score (7.81%). In the fourth level, commissives are located with (6.56%). Finally, only one instance of declaratives has been identified in the play under study. Thus, they score (0.31%).

Keywords

• Pragmatic stylistics, direct speech act, indirect speech act.