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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelAnalysing dramatic text is something quite new in literary
criticism since the conventional one tended to analyse its
performance.This condition is believed by Mick Short,to be
due to the lack of 'techniques of textual analysis able to
cope with the implied aspects of meaning'(Carter and Simpson
-editor;1989:141).Such meaning is the one that appears in
real contexts between living participants which may be differ -
ent with its lexical meaning.Discourse Analysis as the frame
work to deal with analysing dramatic texts,then,is the
answer since this theory deals with language in context hap-
penning between real addreser and addresee.
In this thesis,the Discourse Analysis Theory particularly
Grice's Theory of Implicature is used to analyse Shakespeare's
?'Othello".The problem to solve is how Iago,Desdemona and
even Othello himself -consciously or unconsciously-use the
language in their discourses to lead or keep Othello astray
along the play.The analysis then,conveys that Iago violates
the maxims mostly when he starts misleading Othello in the,so
called,temptation scene.In the discourses between Othello
and Desdemona,they mostly violate the maxims and even the
cooperative principle especially in their last discourses
before the one in which the murder takes place.While either
Desdemona and Othello is in the same side together,however,
their discourses employ only a few violations of the maxims.