摘要简•奥斯丁是十九世纪最成功的女性小说家，其代表作品《傲慢与偏见》中的对白为塑造人物个性发挥了重要作用。本论文运用格莱斯的会话含义理论及合作原则来分析《傲慢与偏见》中的会话含义是如何产生的以及如何理解这些会话含义，以帮助读者理解会话者使用间接方式传达思想和真实感情的原因。语用学的介入不仅能帮助我们揣摩小说里不同的人物形象，而且为语言研究提供了一个全新的理论视角。33609
毕业论文关键词：简•奥斯丁；《傲慢与偏见》；格莱斯；会话含义理论
Abstract Jane Austen is the most successful female novelist in the 19th century and Pride and Prejudice is her representative work whose dialogue is an important mean to shape the personality of the characters. This paper will apply Grice’s conversational implicature theory and cooperative principle to analyze how the conversational implicature in Pride and Prejudice is generated and how to understand it as well as to explain the reason why the speakers use the indirect way to convey their thoughts and real emotions. The introduction of pragmatics can not only deduce the different characters of the roles in the novel but also provide language studies with a brand-new theoretical perspective.
Key words: Jane Austen; Pride and Prejudice; Grice; the theory of conversational implicature
An Analysis of Dialogues in Pride and Prejudice Based on the Theory of Conversational Implicature
Contents
摘 要 i
Abstract ii
I. Introduction 1
II. Studies on Jane Austen and Pride and Prejudice 2
2.1 A Brief Introduction to Jane Austen 2
2.2 Overview of Pride and Prejudice 4
III. Theory of Conversational Implicature 7
3.1 Definition of Conversational Implicature 7
3.2 Characteristics of Conversational Implicature 7
3.3 Definition of Cooperative Principle 8
3.4 Four Maxims of Cooperative Principle 9
IV. Case Analysis in Pride and Prejudice 10
4.1 Implicature Produced by Flouting the Maxim of Quantity 10
4.2 Implicature Produced by Flouting the Maxim of Quality 12
4.3 Implicature Produced by Flouting the Maxim of Relation 14
4.4 Implicature Produced by Flouting the Maxim of Manner 15
V. Conclusion 16
Bibliography 18
Acknowledgments 19
I. Introduction
Jane Austen (1775—1817), one of the most famous female novelists during the 19th century, gets a great reputation all over the world. She is especially good at using free indirect speech and creating bountiful conversational implicature. During her life, Austen has finished six novels which mainly focus on woman’s marriage and the squire life. Thanks to woman’s unique sensitive observation and a lot of vivid sentences, she seriously depicts the inner world and the environment around her. Among all her six novels, nearly every one has a simple plot, light style, and a distinct personality of the characters.
As the most remarkable literary classics in her whole life, Pride and Prejudice, which is Jane Austen’s favorite work according to her sister’s letter, has created a huge success after its born. Enjoying its sincere love story, clear characters and the intricate plot, ordinary readers are usually addicted to it heart-deeply. However, some academic researchers become more interested in other aspects, for instance, the striking characters, meaningful conversations, the sentences filled with irony and satire, love and marriage, property, sense of hierarchy and so on. The varied and abundant studies have become mellow and rich except from the view of linguistics approaches which are still on the way. What’s more, in current essays and reviews, people always overlook careful analysis on the rich implications of the dialogues in Pride and Prejudice. This paper aims to analyze the dialogues in detail from the view of pragmatics, especially from the theory of conversational implicature and the cooperative principle, to have a try to make some possible suggestions. 会话含义理论下《傲慢与偏见》中的对话分析:http://www.youerw.com/yingyu/lunwen_30785.html