Expressives in Queen Camilla Speeches: A Pragma-stylistics Analysis

Abstract

This paper is mainly concerned with investigating the pragma-stylistics perspective of expressives in Queen Camilla Speeches. From a pragma-stylistics point of view, expressives have not received enough attention in the royal family speeches. Accordingly, this study is an attempt to analyze expressive speech pragma-stylistically through the elected model. Thus, it aims at finding out the types of expressives used in Queen Camilla speeches, Tracing the type of deixis that is most frequently used by Queen Camilla, and uncovering the stylistic devices used. According to the aims listed above, it is hypothesized that: thanking, praising and boasting types of expressives the most common types that are used in Queen Camilla's Speeches , Social deixis is the most frequently used type of deixis, and repetition , simile, metaphor  the most common stylistic devices that are used in Queen Camilla speeches . The results of the analysis prove the first, second, and third hypotheses.