《雷雨》中的礼貌策略分析与人物塑造

Thunderstorm's Analysis of Politeness Strategies and Techniques of Character Creation

以往戏剧文学分析主要集中于对修辞学、文体学、美学等印象式的分析,用语料统计和语言学方法进行研究较少。本文以中国戏剧代表《雷雨》为文本,用Brown和Levinson的面子理论框架对该剧重要人物的礼貌策略使用情况,以及礼貌策略与人物塑造之间的关系进行分析,说明如何通过礼貌策略表现人物的身份、等级、性别、性格和人物之间的关系。

The main form of drama is language ,and dialogues are one of CAO Yu’s important means of drama writing .The previous dramatic literature analysis mainly focuses on the impressive analysis ,such as the analysis of rhetoric ,stylistics , aesthetics and so on ,and it seldom focuses on the statistical and linguistic methods .This paper analyzes the dialogues of the characters in Thunderstorm by applying the face saving theory of Brown and Levinson .By analyzing the politeness strategies of two important characters in Thunderstorm and the relationship between the characters’ use of politeness strategies and character creation ,this article demonstrates the character’s gender ,status ,personality and interrelationship .The research results can develop a new perspective for the dramatic analysis .