Deixis in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse

Authors

Badr Abdul Qayoom Abdulla, Ministry of Education General Directorate of Al Anbar
Abdul Hamid Ahmed Al-Madari, College of Arts Sana'a University

Abstract

Deixis is one of the sub-categories of pragmatics. It plays a very crucial role in making the context understandable. Obviously, understanding the deictic items in a literary text will make the process of interpretation easier. The objective of this research paper is to analyze deixis in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse. The process of analysis is confined to some samples of the types of deixis that are used in the novel. The use of deictic items in To the Lighthouse participates in enriching the meaning and conveying certain effects. Through the use of deixis, Woolf succeeds in clarifying many details concerning the speaker of utterance, place of utterance, time of utterance etc. Accordingly, this leads to revealing the interior conflict of the characters and the psychological behavior of individuals with one another

Article Type

Article

First Page

113

Last Page

120

Publication Date

6-15-2020

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Recommended Citation

Abdulla, Badr Abdul Qayoom and Ahmed Al-Madari, Abdul Hamid (2020) "Deixis in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse," Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences: Vol. 59: Iss. 2, Article 14.
DOI: 10.36473/ujhss.v59i2.1099
Available at: https://alustath.researchcommons.org/journal/vol59/iss2/14