从格赖斯合作原则看简·奥斯丁的语言艺术

On Jane Austen's Artistic Features in Perspective of Cooperative Principle

简·奥斯丁是英国十九世纪初杰出的小说家。她善于巧妙地运用小说人物之间以及作者与读者之间交流对合作原则的违反使其语言具有幽默、诙谐效果的同时,进行反讽叙事,塑造生动、鲜明的人物形象,在诙谐、幽默中揭示作品的主题。本文以合作原则为理论框架,分析简·奥斯丁小说《傲慢与偏见》独特的语言艺术,以期验证格赖斯会话含义理论应用于文学作品赏析的可行性,也使我们对这一理论应用于具体文本分析的有效性有更充分的认识。

Jane Austen is a distinguished novelist at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She skillfully employs the violation of the Cooperative Principle in the communication of characters as well as of author and reader to generate the sense of humor, create unforgettable characters and express the theme in an ironic tone. This essay aims to analyze the unique artistic features of Pride and Prejudice in perspective of the Cooperative Principle and proves the applicability of Grice＇s theory of implicature to literary criticism.