An Analysis Of Turns In Hunger Games From The Perspective Of Sociolinguistics

Sociolinguistics,which was established in the 1960s,is a fringe subject where linguistics and other social sciences intersect.It uses the theories and methods of linguistics and sociology to study the social nature and differences of language from different social science perspectives.This paper mainly studies the linguistic variants of speech community,the functions of each variant,the users of each variant and their characteristics.Sociolinguistics is a branch of language science and an integral part of linguistics.It emphasizes the social attributes of language,and pays attention to the interaction and constructive relationship between language structure,language use and society.Sociolinguists put language in a specific social context for interpretation and interpretation of meaning.Turn is a very important concept of conversation analysis in pragmatics,which has a great function.Conversation strategies can fully show the characters and their power relations and positions in the novel.Many scholars believe that conversation should at least consist of words,phrases,clauses or a long sentence to form the information exchange function of a sentence.The turn length of a character refers to the sum of the words a person said in a paragraph.Turn length can highlight everyone’s participation in the conversation.By examining the turn length of each character,we can see what kind of power relationship exists between the characters in the dialogue.Turn refers to the continuous transformation of the roles of the speaker and the hearer in conversation.It also refers to have the rights to speak one by one.For example,the speaker can definitely select the next speaker in a certain way,and can also automatically give up the turn,so that one or more listeners can obtain the turn through the optional way to achieve turn conversion.The hearer also often shows the initiative to realize turn taking,waiting for the opportunity to choose and obtain turn taking,so that the conversation can proceed smoothly.Through the description of discourse theory transformation in sociolinguistics,we can understand that discourse theory transformation can be analyzed from multiple perspectives of sociolinguistics,such as class,politics,media,gender,age,race,and thinking,which can better explain its theoretical and practical significance.The study of this turn will,first of all,help us to have a comprehensive and profound understanding of the mechanism of the occurrence and conduct of dialogue,and a more thorough analysis of the social functions of language;Secondly,it is helpful for us to better and more reasonably understand the text and literature,especially the novel language,and more intuitively and deeply analyze the inner world of the characters in the novel;finally,it will help us to deeply study social groups and individuals,and more accurately grasp the times of language and the psychological process of the evolution of people’s language use characteristics.Sociolinguistics and turn takings are common in people’s daily life,not only in language,but also in people’s way of thinking and behavior.It happens that Hunger Games itself contains a lot of dialogue and sociolinguistic phenomena.Hunger Games,a novel published by Suzanne Collins in 2010,has been popular since its publication.In this context,it can be combined with sociolinguistic theories.Sociolinguistics will explore the following two areas:First,explore changes in social life because it will cause changes in language.Second,explore the changes of society from the changes of language.In the first field,society is the first.Only when society changes can language change.In the second field,society is still primary,but there is no social model or social culture that can be produced by any language model,as language relativists believe.First of all,this paper introduces the relevant theories and research status of sociolinguistics.Secondly,it expounds the investigation and research related to the theory of dialogue,and then proves the theory of sociolinguistics through the multi-angle analysis of sociolinguistics.Finally,through the corresponding sociolinguistic theories and concrete examples,the author illustrates the practical significance of sociolinguistics to society in Hunger Games.This thesis is based on the sociolinguistics theory and it attempts to answer the following questions:(1)How to use sociolinguistic theory to convey positive meaning?(2)How to convey sociolinguistic theory to demonstrate and explain the social meaning in the thesis?(3)How does the turn theory expresses the interpersonal meaning?Combining with the novel text,this paper discusses the turning phenomenon and sociolinguistic theory embodied in Hunger Games through qualitative analysis,which means to analyze the thesis through the theoretical concepts and methods,so that readers can better feel the theme that the author wants to express.