Apologies in Fiction TV Series The Big Bang Theory
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Apologies in Fiction TV Series The Big Bang TheoryAuthor (s)
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Salazar Campillo, Patricia; Universitat Jaume I. Departament d'Estudis AnglesosDate
2017-06-13Publisher
Universitat Jaume IAbstract
Since Austin’s (1962) work How To Do Things With Words there have been numerous
studies about the way in which utterances are used as a mean to perform actions. The
branch of linguistics that deals with this phenomenon ... [+]
Since Austin’s (1962) work How To Do Things With Words there have been numerous
studies about the way in which utterances are used as a mean to perform actions. The
branch of linguistics that deals with this phenomenon is pragmatics, which arouse in the
sixties as a reaction to Chomsky's idea that language is just a set of rules that must be
learnt. After the elaboration of various models of communicative competence presented
by a number of authors, the idea that pragmatic awareness is necessary in order for
speakers to be successful in communication has spread, being one of the most relevant
constructs the one introduced by Celce-Murcia (2007). Research has been conducted
especially on speech acts, as Leech’s (2014) book The Pragmatics of Politeness. For that
reason, we have carried out an analysis on speech acts, and in particular on apologies, of
the TV series The Big Bang Theory. The aim of this study is to analyse whether
apologies in the episodes analysed mirror real-life conversation and if so, to prove that
this audiovisual material may be used for classroom activities, as an appropriate tool for
the purpose of developing students’ pragmatic knowledge. [-]
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Treball Final de Grau en Estudis Anglesos. Codi: EA0938. Curs acadèmic: 2016/2017
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