Living Semantic and Pragmatic Aspects: A Reading in Shakespeare's ROMEO AND JULIET

الملخص

Parallel to his outstanding literary career, Shakespeare is
incomparable in terms of language and linguistics. The unique
structures, coinages, and other innovations that he presented in the line
of his writings clearly show his authority over English which he
masters unrivaled.
This research is an attempt to show how Shakespeare tackled
some major linguistic aspects, and to try to assess his approach to
them. Semantics and pragmatics are applied there in his work and they
are closely connected to the characterization. It is to follow an
intriguing experiment, analyze its components and see how it works.
Basically, it is intended to highlight a strategy that Shakespeare
made use of by embodying a linguistic aspect in a character letting the
character to stand for it. Human representations of linguistic aspects
are set masterly in ROMEO AND JULIET in a way that allows us to
get sufficient information about the extent to which linguistic
characterization is essential for Shakespeare. For him, language and
communication are bound to characterization which creates harmony
and compatibility and gives more credibility to the characters.