Love Is a Fallacy is a great work of Max Shulman, one of the America's most famous humorists. Literary pragmatics,an interdiscipline between literature and pragmatics, is concerned with the examples in which pragm...Love Is a Fallacy is a great work of Max Shulman, one of the America's most famous humorists. Literary pragmatics,an interdiscipline between literature and pragmatics, is concerned with the examples in which pragmatics is combined with linguistic and literary methods. Speech Act Theory, initiated by John Austin and developed by Paul Grice, has been employed in literary pragmatics. This paper aims to explore the characterization of the three roles in Love Is a Fallacy in the light of literary pragmatics. By delving into the realization of speech act and the flouting of the maxims of Cooperative Principle, the establishment process of characters can be better demonstrated.展开更多
Milne is universally recognized as a prominent writer of children’s literature due to his successful creation of such car⁃toon characters as Winnie-the-Pooh,the bouncy Tigger and the gloomy Eeyore.What is less known ...Milne is universally recognized as a prominent writer of children’s literature due to his successful creation of such car⁃toon characters as Winnie-the-Pooh,the bouncy Tigger and the gloomy Eeyore.What is less known to the world,however,is that he also excels in other types of writing.Here,we are to take one of his early essays A Village Celebration for an example and see how he manages to draw a quick sketch of various characters in less than 2,000 words.展开更多
Pygmalion is one of Shaw′s best-known plays. It has been an enormous success all over the world. Pygmalion is quite distinctive in all Shaw′ plays. Generally speaking, Shaw′s plays don′f pay much attention to plet...Pygmalion is one of Shaw′s best-known plays. It has been an enormous success all over the world. Pygmalion is quite distinctive in all Shaw′ plays. Generally speaking, Shaw′s plays don′f pay much attention to plets, but the plot of Pygmalion is very interesting and attractive. Seemingly,展开更多
文摘Love Is a Fallacy is a great work of Max Shulman, one of the America's most famous humorists. Literary pragmatics,an interdiscipline between literature and pragmatics, is concerned with the examples in which pragmatics is combined with linguistic and literary methods. Speech Act Theory, initiated by John Austin and developed by Paul Grice, has been employed in literary pragmatics. This paper aims to explore the characterization of the three roles in Love Is a Fallacy in the light of literary pragmatics. By delving into the realization of speech act and the flouting of the maxims of Cooperative Principle, the establishment process of characters can be better demonstrated.
文摘Milne is universally recognized as a prominent writer of children’s literature due to his successful creation of such car⁃toon characters as Winnie-the-Pooh,the bouncy Tigger and the gloomy Eeyore.What is less known to the world,however,is that he also excels in other types of writing.Here,we are to take one of his early essays A Village Celebration for an example and see how he manages to draw a quick sketch of various characters in less than 2,000 words.
文摘Pygmalion is one of Shaw′s best-known plays. It has been an enormous success all over the world. Pygmalion is quite distinctive in all Shaw′ plays. Generally speaking, Shaw′s plays don′f pay much attention to plets, but the plot of Pygmalion is very interesting and attractive. Seemingly,
