An Analysis of Pride and Prejudice from Illocutionary Act Theory

It is rare to analyze Austen's Pride and Prejudice from the perspective of Speech Act Theory.The author will employ this theory to find out the real intentions of speakers in this novel.Through analyzing,readers can find more detailed meanings and intentions of the characters and the writer.

Illocutionary Force and Translation： A Case Study of Chinese Renditions of The Merry Wives of Windsor

This research seeks to contribute to translation studies by examining the illocutionary force of the speech act theory. It identifies two senses of illocutionary force： The active function of language is defined as lFl and the varying degrees of the strength of the speech act are defined as IF2. The implications of the two senses ofillocutionary force for translation studies are discussed in a case study of the translation of directives in Chinese versions of Shakespeare＇s play, The Merry Wives of Windsor. Translation shifts in transferring IF2, as manifested in pragmatic duality features of directness/indirectness, tone articles, repetition of verbs, action measure verbs, upgrader ＂,给我＂ and honorific addressing terms and vocatives are discussed. The notion＇s potential as a criterion to evaluate translation quality is also explored.

Mandarin Particle ba at the Syntax-Pragmatics Interface

This paper discusses the Mandarin particle ba concerning its syntactic and pragmatic issues. In the different positions of the various sentence types in Mandarin, ba performs specific speech acts and encodes a specific illocutionary force from the perspective of pragmatic discourse analysis. Under the Universal Spine Hypothesis, the sentence-internal ba relates to the grounding layer, and the sentence-final ba is located in the responding layer, which is extended domains of the Universal Spine Hypothesis.

An Interpretation of“Is He Living or Is He Dead”——From the Perspective of the Speech Acts Theory of Pragmatics

Speech acts theory has been widely studied in linguistics, but applied into analyzing literature works has been very few. This paper interprets Mark Twain's short novel "Is He Living or Is He Dead" from the perspective of the speech acts theory of pragmatics.

On the Manifestation of the Compulsoriness of Legal Discourse

The French philosopher Michel Foucault believes that discourse is in essence the force exerted on things. In the discourse theory, this kind of power is the vehicle that grants verbal communication structure—“illocutionary force”, which makes the compulsoriness of legal discourse possible and at the same time imposes constraints on it. By introducing the concept of “illocutionary force” from classic discourse theory, the compulsory relationship between the orator and the audience in legal discourse has been revealed.To put it clearly, the relationship consists of external compulsoriness and internal compulsoriness, the former of which can be divided into three categories:“prohibition”,“distinction” and “acknowledgement” and the later encompasses “commentary”,“signature” and “paradigm”.

Indirect Request’s Processing Based on Force-Dynamic Theory

This paper focuses on one of the indirect speech acts,indirect requests.This paper firstly introduced how force-dynamic theory works and analyzed the same situation of indirect request that involves different utterances by applying Talmy’s force-dynamic theory.It reveals how indirect request is processed between speakers and listeners by adopting patterns explanation,and also gives cognitive interpretation of it.Besides,from cognitive linguistic perspective,it was found that there are three factors that may influence the result of indirect request,which contain the strength of utterance’s illocutionary force,listener’s willingness and pertinence relation between utterance and speaker’s purpose.All the factors will appear when an indirect request is produced,however,there will be at least one of them at the prominent position.This paper partially uncovers how we operate at the cognitive level when indirect requests are delivered.

An Analysis of Chinese Address Terms From the Perspective of Speech Act Theory

Address terms are an important resource for conveying relationships.In daily interactions,the use of address terms is unavoidable.Therefore,the choose of address terms is particularly critical to make communicate smoothly with people.Previous scholars have studied address terms from a wide range of perspectives.But there is not much research on Chinese address terms based on speech act theory,which is put forward by John Langshaw Austin.By observing communicative conversations,several findings have been emerged from the analysis.They are professional title,affectionate address terms,and common address terms.These findings express the existential significance of address terms,which are the premise for people to maximize their illocutionary act when communicating.Correct understanding and grasp of the use of address terms is conductive to unfolding the communicative dialogue more smoothly.

An Interpretation of The Great Gatsby on the basis of Speech Act Theory

Speech act theory is a significant part in linguistics, and The Great Gatsby is a famous novel in the history of literature.The interpretation of The Great Gatsby is based on three kinds of speech acts, and they are locutionary act, illocutionary act, and perlocutionary act. Literary language can carry out speech act, and speech act accomplished by literary language can help writers express thought effectively.

Lyric Poem as Representation： From Plato to the New Criticism

This essay treats the understanding of poetry, especially lyric poetry, as representation. The theme is developed partly as a historical survey, from the Classical Age to Romanticism and to Modernism, and through the history of aesthetics in Western terms. It offers critical scrutiny with the intention to explore a more justifiable theory of representation. Hopefully it may help to understand lyric poetry in historical contexts from Plato and Aristotle＇s imitation theories, to Beardsley＇s theory of illocutionary action and New Criticism. It is the image in lyric poetry that accounts for human action＇s being represented. Poetic beauty is an illusionary reality, as that in painting, and the role of image has been widely appreciated in producing this beauty as verbal icon. Finally, I mention the connection between Western theorizing of poetry as representation and Chinese poetry and poetics in general. We see the possibility that the importance of lyric poetry as representation can encourage comparative literature and world literature, and a general theory of representation. These might be informative in Chinese literary studies, from a theoretical point of view.