对奥斯本《愤怒的回顾》中人物对话的语用文体学解读

Pragmatic Stylistics Analysis of the Dialogues in Osborne's Look Back in Anger

婚姻问题是一个社会问题的缩影。约翰 奥斯本的戏剧《愤怒的回顾》正是透过婚姻的外壳,反映了二十世纪五十年代二战后英国的社会现实。本文从语用文体学的角度出发,运用间接言语行为理论、语用策略和礼貌原则,对《愤怒的回顾》中人物的对话特点进行分析,旨在探究作者是如何通过巧妙地设计剧本中的对话来反映剧中人物的婚姻问题,从而揭露社会现实,表达对公正社会的向往。

Marriage is an epitome of social problems. John Osborne’ s drama Look Back in Anger reflects the social reality in Great Britain in the Post-WW Ⅱ epoch through the shell of marriage. From the perspective of pragmatic stylistics, this paper analyzes the characteristics of the dialogues in Look Back in Anger by adopting speech act theory, pragmatic strategy and politeness principle. The aim is to explore how the author skillfully designs the dialogues in the play to reflect the characters’ marital problem and further to expose the social reality and to express the author’s yearning for a just society.