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Abstract
Abstract
It has been argued that Stylistics is a field of study that incorporates the work of any two approaches. In the light of this, Pragmatics is an intrinsic part of Stylistics in that it highlights the intersection between style and context (Hickey, 1993, p. 573 as cited in Burke, 2011, p. 363). Hence, the first objective of this study is to explore the power of masculinity in two well-known plays: A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams and Death of A Salesman by Arthur Miller.In A Streetcar Named Desire, Stanley impinges his control on the female characters in the play through dominance and subjugation. Conversely, in Death of A Salesman, Willy Loman is represented differently by Arthur Miller. He practices his own power on his elder son Biff to follow his American myth to be a famous businessman, and thus a millionaire.The second objective of the study extends the same idea of power by exploring the unsaid meanings through different generated implicatures and inferred assumptions, brought about by the use of politeness and impoliteness principles and positive and negative face threatening acts. The study also adopts a pragmatic stylistic approach which draws on analytical tools derived from Grice’s Cooperative Principle and its maxims as well as Searle’s speech act theory.Therefore, in A Streetcar Named Desire, it is a male versus female(s) dyad, and is first a father, son, then a son/father dyad in Death of A Salesman.