endeavors to apply politeness principles, explored by Brown and Levinson, so as to reveal the ways in which Pinter unveils men's vulgar mainstream attitude toward women in patriarchal communities, as shown in the talk of male personae in the all-male tribe...

This paper attempts to yield a critical reading of “The Yellow Wallpaper”

(1892), which is one of the pioneering feminist works of American

literature. Attempts have been made at finding affinities between ...