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VOL. 3, ISSUE 2 (2017)
Semantic analysis of George Bernard Shaw’s Candida: A stylistic approach
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S Gopi Krishnan, S Anandh Raj
Abstract
G.B. Shaw is known for his discussion plays that provide ample scope for the stylistic interpretation. His characters are seldom mouthpieces, propagating his ideas. His irony and paradoxes can better be brought out through his skillfully woven dramatic language. Discourse analysis is a criterion that focuses on the linguistic structure of the dramatic dialogue. G.B. Shaw’s plays, next in global fame to Shakespeare’s, are unexhausted literature of discourses that have hardly been interpreted on their rich linguistic structure. Though more than fifty plays have been written by the noble laureate, Candida has restricted in the number of characters, but artistically valued much in its triangle discussion to deal with the characters’ nobility and happiness; passion and reason. Thus, the play is a resourceful art to be explored with the spectacle of stylistics. Researchers have already been done in the speech act theory, irony and paradox and some other related topics on this particular play. This paper is an attempt in the stream to study of Shaw’s Candida in the light of its semantic-stylistic value.
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Pages:31-34
How to cite this article:
S Gopi Krishnan, S Anandh Raj "Semantic analysis of George Bernard Shaw’s <em>Candida</em>: A stylistic approach". International Journal of English Research, Vol 3, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 31-34
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