Politeness and stereotypes in a literary text: an analysis of Stephen King’s “The Man in the Black Suit”

Autori

  • Karina Moraes Kurtz UFSM - Universidade Federal de Santa Maria. Departamento de Letras Estrangeiras Modernas. Santa Maria, RS

Parole chiave:

Politeness, Stereotypes, Literature, ELT, Classroom,

Abstract

The present paper is an analysis of politeness and stereotypes of two excerpts from the short story “The Man in the Black Suit” by the author Stephen King. It was analyzed paragraphs and key words that indicate politeness in several utterances between the main characters of the short story, and their stereotypes. An analysis of the construction of politeness and a dismembering of a false stereotype is strongly build up in the short story. The results and conclusion point how important it is to work with literary texts and the use of semantics and pragmatics concepts as tools combined to improve English classes.

Biografia autore

Karina Moraes Kurtz, UFSM - Universidade Federal de Santa Maria. Departamento de Letras Estrangeiras Modernas. Santa Maria, RS

Formanda do segundo semestre de 2017 do curso  Letras - Lic.- Hab. Inglês e Literaturas Língua Inglesa, na UFSM (Universidade Federal de Santa Maria). Classificada para o Mestrado em Letras, estudos literários, concentração: Literatura, comparatismo e crítica social, para o primeiro semestre de 2018. Bolsista de Iniciação Científica do CNPq no grupo de pesquisa "Literatura e Autoritarismo", na UFSM.

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Pubblicato

15/05/2018