The Minister’s Black Veil is one of the most classic short stories written by American romantic writer Nathaniel Hawthorne(1804-1864),From the perspective of literary pragmatics,this paper analyzes the language featu...The Minister’s Black Veil is one of the most classic short stories written by American romantic writer Nathaniel Hawthorne(1804-1864),From the perspective of literary pragmatics,this paper analyzes the language features of the novel,such as words and sentences,grammar,semantic ambiguity,rhetoric and conversational implicature based on cooperative principle,so as to explore the superb writing style and literary art of the novel,better understand and appreciate this literary work,and provide a new perspective and reference for the study of British and American literature Direction.展开更多
Brown & Levinson's face theory is an important theory in Pragmatics and it is an influential theory in expounding the phenomenon of politeness. Through an analysis of the functions of "face" in English literary wo...Brown & Levinson's face theory is an important theory in Pragmatics and it is an influential theory in expounding the phenomenon of politeness. Through an analysis of the functions of "face" in English literary works, this article intends to shed new lights on literary pragmatics.展开更多
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
文摘The Minister’s Black Veil is one of the most classic short stories written by American romantic writer Nathaniel Hawthorne(1804-1864),From the perspective of literary pragmatics,this paper analyzes the language features of the novel,such as words and sentences,grammar,semantic ambiguity,rhetoric and conversational implicature based on cooperative principle,so as to explore the superb writing style and literary art of the novel,better understand and appreciate this literary work,and provide a new perspective and reference for the study of British and American literature Direction.
文摘Brown & Levinson's face theory is an important theory in Pragmatics and it is an influential theory in expounding the phenomenon of politeness. Through an analysis of the functions of "face" in English literary works, this article intends to shed new lights on literary pragmatics.
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.