Cultural Pragmatics in Edward Albee’s The Zoo Story
This article engages debates on how changing cultural values impinge on the behavioral patterns of an individual by considering social actions as distinctly mobile engagement with the environment. Cultural Pragmatics is essential for a close examination of Edward Albee’s The Zoo Story. This article...
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doaj-168bed43419c45199188c1d6aa49b4772020-11-24T21:35:07ZengPetra Christian UniversityK@ta: A Biannual Publication on the Study of Language and Literature1411-26392302-62942016-01-01181812Cultural Pragmatics in Edward Albee’s The Zoo StoryDodhy S.0 Department of English, University of Punjab This article engages debates on how changing cultural values impinge on the behavioral patterns of an individual by considering social actions as distinctly mobile engagement with the environment. Cultural Pragmatics is essential for a close examination of Edward Albee’s The Zoo Story. This article attempts to investigate how intentions of interactants are culture driven and culture related. People are led to a state of disorientation due to collapse of cultural values and discontinuity of conventional view points and beliefs. The speaker’s discourse highlights the character’s inability to communicate to suggest the emptiness of hackneyed social intercourse resulting in psychopathological diseases among individuals.http://kata.petra.ac.id/index.php/ing/article/view/18969American; Cultural; Interactants; Psychopath; Relationship; Society; Values. |
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Petra Christian University |
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K@ta: A Biannual Publication on the Study of Language and Literature |
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This article engages debates on how changing cultural values impinge on the behavioral patterns of an individual by considering social actions as distinctly mobile engagement with the environment. Cultural Pragmatics is essential for a close examination of Edward Albee’s The Zoo Story. This article attempts to investigate how intentions of interactants are culture driven and culture related. People are led to a state of disorientation due to collapse of cultural values and discontinuity of conventional view points and beliefs. The speaker’s discourse highlights the character’s inability to communicate to suggest the emptiness of hackneyed social intercourse resulting in psychopathological diseases among individuals. |
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American; Cultural; Interactants; Psychopath; Relationship; Society; Values. |
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