Analyzing the short story “Handwriting of death row prisoner” from the perspective of text world theory

Abstract

The article "Handwriting of death row prisoner" from the perspective of Text World Theory towards the application of the theory of textual research by Paul Werth and Gavins to study the production, function and functioning of language in the story. This theory is the next evolution of Discourse Analysis. “Text World Theory” considers work as a world expressed in language. In which, words are signs of the "interpretation" of the world that all objects participating in the text have created. Using the above perspective to study stories can help recipients and literary analysts see the values expressed in the depth of language and the creative basis of the writer's semantic world in the process of composing. In order to examine the effectiveness of "Text World Theory" for the analysis of the work, we have chosen the short story "The word of a prisoner on death row" by Nguyen Tuan as the test object and initially obtained the following results. positive results