The Dramatic Stylistic Interpretation On Dramatic Dialogue

This thesis is about an interpretation on dramatic dialogue. In some sense, dramatics are represented as action. In Cao Yu's scripts, which is as the model of the realistic drama, the dialogue has a particular prominent stylistic of action. And how can the action be represented in the communication between characters? What are the patterns like? These are the main topics in the thesis. To study the given patterns of language is related to an adequate theory of Pragmatics, which is utilized to analyse the patterns of conversation. Thus, this thesis is trying to study dramatic dialogue with the theory of speech act, the theory of cooperative principle and the theory of turn from conversation analysis, which is involved in spectrum of western Stylistics study. Therefore, it is possible to interpret the style of action in dramatic dialogue and to understand that action is the essence of dramatic. Besides, a detailed explanation in Cao Yu's works is somehow a pursuit to understand the dramatic dialogue completely.