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    The Deployment of Drama in Teaching Pragmatic Concepts
    (Université Mouloud Mammeri Tizi-Ouzou, 2019-04-13) GHENNAI Meriam
    This research addresses the usefulness of excerpts from William Shakespeare's the Tempest, Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Harold Pinter's The Caretaker as instructional materials while teaching pragmatic concepts. The concepts under study are; speech acts, politeness and conversational management. The dialogues in the three plays are approached in a similar way to the pragmatic approach to dialogues of everyday life. The analysis is conducted for the aim of foregrounding how the concepts operate in context, how they reflect characters’ identities and relationships as well as how they manifest themselves linguistically. The results yielded from such analysis help at testing the effectiveness of excerpts from the suggested plays as means of discussing and illustrating the pragmatic concepts in class. The study reveals that the three plays prove to be resourceful with varied social contexts that give rise to manifestations of the target concepts. Additionally, they offer a variety of relationships, social contexts, and speech that allow socio-pragmatic study of the language used. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Caretaker’s language is much closer to the language people use nowadays than the language in The Tempest by Shakespeare. Moreover, they display more features of everyday talk than The Tempest as well more complex, subverted and inappropriate patterns of interaction and strategies of language use.