Pragmastyplisrtidices Analysis Of Filmic Text Of Pride And Prdjudice

In recent years, a new interdisciplinary Pragmastylistics, which has attractedbroad attention of domestic and foreign scholars, is emerging as a pragmatic analysisto interpret literary works. It integrates a variety of ideas in the understanding ofliterary language in its real connotations. As more and more researchers pay attentionto the feasibility of combining literature and Pragmatics, pragmastylistic analysis ofvarious versions of literary works and the film is favored by them. Because we canunderstand the psychological mechanism of the production and the interpretation ofliterary texts better with this kind of method, combining the pragmatic theory withthe literature is conducive to explain the social significance of literary language andalso beneficial for exploring the dynamic interaction between social cultural factorsand readers’psychological factors in literature communication.Jane Austen’s classic work Pride and Prejudice is always the apple in manyscholars’eyes who have studied it systematically from the perspective of literature orPragmatics. As Pragmastylistics has been developing in recent years, increasingfocus is drawn to the pragmastylistic analysis of many versions of literary works orfilms. This thesis studies the dialogues of the film which is adapted from Pride andPrejudice by using theories of Pragmastylistics to analyze how the personality andfeelings of characters are described through dialogues and how the theme of the filmis highlighted. The thesis is developed as follows:Chapter l is the introduction, referring to the current research situation ofPragmastylistics and Literary Pragmatics, analyzing its application in the study ofliterary works the significance of the study the research design of the thesis.Chapter2is literature review which includes relationship between Pragmaticsand Pragmastylistics, Literary Pragmatics and Pragmastylistics, Pragmastylistics andStylistics, then makes a review of relevant studies about Pragmastylistics from homeand abroad explored by different scholars.Chapter3introduces the theoretic framework and sub-theories in detail, whichrefers to Grice’s Cooperative Principle, Leech’s Politeness Principle, Brown andLevinson’s Face Theory, Searle’s SpeechAct Theory.Chapter4is the main body of the thesis. It analyzes the conversational implicature of the film from the perspective of the violation of Cooperative Principle,expounds characters’ personalities by using Leech’s Politeness Principle and Brownand Levinson’s Face Theory. It also uses Speech Act Theory to analyze the ironywhich is an outstanding characteristic of the work to reveal the speech styles of thecharacters.Chapter5is the conclusion of the thesis as well as the limitation about thepresent study and suggestions for further study.The author mainly draws the conclusion through the research as follows: Aboutthe classic literature Pride and Prejudice, former studies are chiefly directed to thelanguage itself, and rarely referred to the filmic text, and they are mostly from onecertain theory of Pragmatics or Stylistics. The present study tries to adoptmuti-angles of Pragmastylistics to analyze the filmic text of Pride and Prejudice,helping readers better understand the work and better appreciate the personalitycharacteristics and speech styles of its characters and meanwhile proving thefeasibility and the advantages of analyzing the filmic text of Pride and Prejudicefrom the perspective of Pragmastylistics.The author hopes that this thesis will be helpful in better understanding forreaders of the classic work of Pride and Prejudice, and at the same time in theirbetter learning about the society, the culture and the conventions of England andfinally in promoting our skills of language, communication and translation.