ABSTRACT
In this chapter I analyse the Prologue to Kazuo Ishiguro’s (1989) novel The Remains of the Day and the opening scenes of James Ivory’s (1993) film adaptation of the novel, which also act as a form of prologue. My immediate goal is to demonstrate how a set of conceptual tools developed within the field of pragmatics can bring into view differences in the way that the power relations between characters are constructed in the two realisations of the narrative. A wider aim of this chapter is to initiate a debate about what pragmatic approaches in general can bring to the analysis of multimodal texts.
