The Exploitation of Pragmatic Deviation in Literary Discourse

Discourse reflects language use beyond the sentence level; it is embodied in the realization of a set of oral or written sentences that may conform to the norms or may deviate from them depending on the intentions and linguistic of the users. In fact, the application of pragmatic norms results in the of appropriate sentences while the violation of these rules leads to the of infelicitous discourse caused by pragmatic deviance which represents a of linguistic innovation despite its reflection of inappropriate language use. , the present article deals with the issue of pragmatic deviation in literary . First, it explains the significance of pragmatic deviance. Then, it discusses exploitation of pragmatically motivated discourse deviation in literary texts the analysis of sentences extracted from different novels. Finally, it lists the effects produced by such a phenomenon on the readers and scholars. speaking, this article attempts to uncover the contribution of pragmatic to the richness of literary discourse and the variation of language use