@article{article_508008, title={Form and Meaning in Literature: Deixis and the Portrayal of Personal, Social and Financial Relations in Pride and Prejudice}, journal={Cankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences}, volume={12}, pages={1–16}, year={2018}, author={Glover, Philip and Al-tekreeti, Adwaa Sabah Shukur}, keywords={Deixis,pragmatics,literature,language form,meaning,Jane Austen}, abstract={<p>This study considers the relationship between form and meaning in literature by <br>looking at the use of deixis in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. The study takes <br>insights from pragmatics to focus on personal, social and discourse deixis and uses <br>quantitative and qualitative methods to analyse the frequency of personal pronouns, <br>proximity pronouns and titles and to consider how deixis affects the themes of <br>emotional relations, social class and the role of women. The frequency of personal <br>pronouns and titles in Pride and Prejudice was compared with the British National <br>Corpus and Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. Findings of both the quantitative <br>and qualitative analysis indicate that the way selected language forms are used <br>reflects how emotional relationships develop in the novel, the social status of the <br>characters and the role of women in Pride and Prejudice. The study goes on to discuss <br>how deixis and themes relate to the literary techniques of irony and to a lesser extent <br>ambiguity. <br> </p>}, number={1-2}, publisher={Cankaya University}