Journal of Higher Education Research

As a subfield of linguistics developed in the late 1970s, pragmatics studies how people comprehend and produce a communicative act or speech act in a concrete speech situation which is usually a conversation. A pragmatic analysis is a set of linguistic techniques used by analysts to create systematic accounts of texts. They aim to find the whole range of inferences that a reader or listener might make when confronted with a writer's or speaker's locutions in context. This research paper tries to focus on the pragmatic analysis of the language discourse, context, and its function in the novel To Live based on Politeness Principle, Hedging strategies, Cooperative Principles, Conversational Implicature, and Speech Act. It may help readers to comprehend the novel with a deep understanding and to see the novel from different angles.