A Pragma-Stylistics Analysis Of Poem “Sometimes I Cry” By “Tupac Shakur”: Perspective Of Paul Grice’s Theory Of Implicature, Searle’s Speech Acts Theory And Levinson’s Deictic Expressions

Abstract

To analyse any text with regard to logical considerations is how one approaches the text intent and aim of the writer. This research project takes a practical and stylistic look at the poem "Sometimes I Cry" by Tupac Shakur. This research aims to shed light on the stylistic deployment of pragmatic ideas in literary and, more specifically, dramatic speech. This research examines the pragmatics of Tupac Shakur's poem by applying an eclectic theory based on the works of Searle (1979) and Grice (1975), as well as Cruse (2006) for deixis: the Thus, Searle's categorization of SA as realistic, expressive, directorial, commissioned, and declared is scrutinised for each poem's analysis. Grice's tenets (quality, quantity, style, and relationship) are also investigated in each piece to see how much the poet relied on and disliked them to deliver his message. Each poem's translation was examined via the lens of five different types of deixis (personal, time, place, social, and discourse). Thus, the study seeks to analyse the texts of the chosen poem through the use of pragmatic methods in order to determine the poet's style, which is how the right comprehension of the writing can be attained, as well as to determine the most common kinds of language acts a poet uses, to demonstrate how non-compliance with concepts generate stylistic impact on two levels of collaboration in Tupac the rapper Shakur's poem, and to identify types of deixis. This research needs to draw the following conclusions about communication acts: 1) speech actions that are expressive are more common compared to different types. The poet dislikes the majority of Grice's maxims, qualitative maxim being the most prominent of these. The third reason is because the poet mostly used temporal deixis. (4) Tupac Shakur, the rapper, and other lexical components in the poem only employ Grice's three maxims to express ideas and meanings indirectly.