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Abstract Information can be inferred beyond what speakers actually say. Pragmatics a subfield of linguistics that studies how context influences the meaning of a language. Grice was the first to attempt an explicit account of information which can be drawn beyond what speakers actually say. The main focus of this thesis is to point out intended meaning in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird via a pragmatic reading of the novel. The pragmatic tools used in this thesis are Deixes, Implicature and speech acts. A theoretical survey is given followed by an application to the mentioned novel. The thesis concluded that exploring Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird by, deixes makes clear what Harper Lee intended meanings are. Implicatre is concerned with implicit meaning.Violating implicature demonstrates the implicit meaning. It reveals the intended message beyond what speakers actually say. Speech acts theory analyses utterance as performing actions. In Harper Lee’s novel illocutionary acts performed are directive with help in understanding the type of attitude being expressed different forms of components of pragmatics will be discussed to get deep understanding of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. |