Personality Markers as Social Markers in Selected English Dramatic Texts

Abstract

Social markers have social significance and can be used to identify a speaker's speech and classify it. These social markers depend on variation between individuals because without such variation, no markers would be found. For example, in English drama, the writers show their participants or actors as examples of people in real life, reflecting their social problems and political issues through their language. People show their personalities through their behaviour in particular situations and through their social identities. This study depends only on social markers that they might employ in their instantaneous speech to identify the type of personality they belong to. The characters in the play "Arms and the Man" by Bernard Shaw use speech cues to reveal their psychological attitudes. Miller in his play "Death of a Salesman'' also shows his audience how bad social conditions make people use more negative emotions. These negative feelings effect on use special social markers rather than others.