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Haunted minds gather at Hill House: applying studies of implicature to Shirley Jackson's novel

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dc.contributor.authorGómez López, Francisco Javier
dc.contributor.directorAlba Juez, Laura
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-20T12:12:15Z
dc.date.available2024-05-20T12:12:15Z
dc.date.issued2023-06-01
dc.description.abstractThis research studies Shirley Jackson’s novel The Haunting of Hill House from a pragmatic perspective, specifically by applying the notion of implicature. A pragmatic point of view opens interesting possibilities for both investigating the techniques of fiction and how readers interact with a literary text. Furthermore, it proves useful in unraveling the complexities behind the fictional work. The reading was approached with “fresh” eyes in order to show that no previous information regarding the novel was required to fully appreciate its content and entertain the notion of the text’s self-autonomy. The recognition and praise the book has received throughout the years was just acknowledged to indicate that The Haunting of Hill House is considered in many avenues as a fine piece of literature. In the first section I will show the relevance of Grice’s Cooperative Principle and his concept of “implicature”. Next, I will introduce the author along with her novel and its characters. Then, an analysis of forty-nine dialogues taken from the novel will help illustrate Grice’s theory. Finally, a study of said dialogues will assist in reaching some conclusions and unveil some themes underlying the characters’ motivations and purposes at Hill house. Summing up, the present work shows by way of observing H.P. Grice’s Cooperative Principle and the conversational maxims, and without a previous knowledge of the author, or the circumstances about the conception of the novel, that any reader, as shown in this paper, can reach a reasonably fair comprehension of the fictional work. In order to achieve that, the only means necessary is the reader’s own knowledge of the language, along with the ability to work out the implicature of their reading. Likewise, no literary criticism or approach was considered for the purpose of this paper, for the average reader seldom resorts to this external knowledge.en
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dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/13268
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (España). Facultad de Filología. Departamento de Filologías Extranjeras y sus Lingüísticas Supervisor del trabajo Guarddon Anelo, María del Carmen
dc.relation.centerFacultades y escuelas::Facultad de Filología
dc.relation.degreeGrado en Estudios Ingleses: Lengua, Literatura y Cultura
dc.relation.departmentFilologías Extranjeras y sus Lingüísticas
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es
dc.subject.keywordsPragmatics
dc.subject.keywordsimplicature
dc.subject.keywordsGrice
dc.subject.keywordsJackson
dc.subject.keywordsHill House
dc.titleHaunted minds gather at Hill House: applying studies of implicature to Shirley Jackson's noveles
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dc.typebachelor thesisen
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