Negotiating Emotion and Gender through Dialogue: A Pragmatic Study of White Nights

Based on the model of positive and negative politeness offered by Brown and Levinson and the ideas of locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary acts presented by J. L. Austin, this study examines the process of communicating and managing emotions like love, loneliness, hope, and guilt through language. This novel ‘White Nights’ is replete with the emotional discourse, like many other works…