Exploring Impoliteness Strategies in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman

the tragedy of modern man in arthur millers world

what miller wants is a theatre of heightened consciousness. he speaks of two passions in a man, the passion to "feel" and the passion "know". he belives that we can have more of the latter. he says: drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us know more and not merely to spend our feelings. the writing of the crucible shows us that he is trying to give more heightene...

Death of a salesman

To cite: Hastings GB, Moodie C. Tob Control 2015;24:ii1–ii2. TAKING THE LEAD In December 2012 Australia became the first jurisdiction to mandate plain (or standardised) packaging for tobacco products. Many governments have been looking on with interest, anxious to learn if this is also the next step forward in their own efforts to tackle the harms caused by tobacco. This special issue begins to...

Impoliteness and mock-impoliteness A descriptive analysis

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"semiotics of dramatic characters name in the plays death of a salesman"

this article, in an onomastic framework, is based in the semiotics of characters’ names, and tries to study the names of the dramatic characters’ names according to the different references introduced by c. s. pierce such as iconic, indexical and symbolic references.since the knowledge of onomastics is one of the analytical means with respect to knowing the literary- dramatic characters in the ...