Humorous and flirtatious: an One Piece live-action semantics and pragmatics analysis

Resumen

Language is a diverse and complex system which allows multiple possibilities of analysis and interpretations while in use to construe meaning in particular discourses. To explore some of these possibilities of analysis within fictional scenarios, we aim to highlight the presence of ambiguity and politeness, from the semantics and pragmatics fields, in a scene from the Netflix TV series One Piece. By analyzing the transcription of a particular scene from One Piece, we were able to uncover different ambiguity and politeness manifestations. We expect our findings can provide support and content for future teachers of the English language and researchers’ further investigation to make the teaching process more meaningful and interesting at school.