Ruaa Harbi Abdul Jalil

A Pragmatic Analysis of Place Deixis in Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants”

This paper discusses the practical roles of spatial deixis in the story, Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway. Despite the fact that the story has been widely examined in terms of symbolism and dialogue, little attention has been paid to the role of spatial deictic expressions in meaning construction in a par...