Linguistic Deviation as Signs of Social Class Distinction in Eugene O'Neill's play "The Ice Man Cometh".

Abstract

This study attempts to examine the types of linguistic deviations in Eugene O'Neill novels. "The Iceman comth". Furthermore, determining the cause of these linguistic deviations is also a problem. Chapter One is designed to describe eight different types of linguistic biases classified according to Leech (1969). Chapter Two introduces the author's critical comments, highlighting the definition of social class and it's relationships with linguistic deviation, The third is corpus-based description and analysis, limited to the following language deviations: Phonological distortion, lexical distortion, grammatical distortion, semantic distortion and handwriting distortion In "Iceman comth" Eugene O'Neill reason for using these differences is to imply that certain messages and Thus, different types of characters shape their social status. Also, Eugene O'Neill tried to portray real life,