Film And Television Works "nowhere We Put Youth" Linguistic Analysis Of The Characters In The Dialogue

We Have Nowhere to Place Youth, directed by the famous director Shen Yanji, isthe first teleplay made by filmstrip in China. It represents a sad and heartbreaking lovestory changing from a pure beautiful one after being processed by the reality. Thethesis tries to analyze the rich conversational implicatures contained in the classicaldialogues between characters in the teleplay in the perspective of Presupposition,Cooperative Principle and the Theory of Conversational Implicature.In this thesis, with the synopsis of We Have Nowhere to Place Youth made first,the author makes a research overview of Presupposition, Cooperative Principle and theTheory of Conversational Implicature, which provides theoretical support for theproduction of the thesis. Chapter One is a general description of presupposition theory.The author introduces the relationship between presupposition and entailment,semantic prediction and pragmatic prediction. In the part of semantic prediction, theauthor makes a series of expatiation and discussion about the concept and applicationof semantic prediction, presupposition triggers, and the defeasibility and projectionproblem. Then in the course of elaboration on pragmatic prediction, the authordiscusses the concept and application of pragmatic prediction as well as thecharacteristics of pragmatic prediction. In Chapter Two, the author introducesCooperative Principle first, which provides theoretical support for the analysis of theconversational implicatures contained in the classical dialogues between characters inWe Have Nowhere to Place Youth. Conversational implicatures produced by thedeliberate violation of Cooperative Principle and its maxims elaborate the relationshipbetween the literary meaning of utterance and the real meaning which it intends toconvey in fact. In this part, according to the four related categories violated bydifferent dialogues between characters in the teleplay, the author makes classificationand does thorough analysis in order to understand devious expressions and implication made by the characters. In this way, the author can make a deepunderstanding of the mental status of characters, and thereby, attain the purpose ofunderstanding the connotation of the teleplay. In the end, the author discusses thecharacteristics of conversational implicature through which the Theory ofConversational Implicature can be better understood.The author chooses a lot of classical dialogues between characters from We HaveNowhere to Place Youth and makes a linguistic analysis of the selected corpus throughPresupposition, Cooperative Principle and the Theory of Conversational Implicature. Inthis way, the author not only summarizes inspiration gained from Presupposition,Cooperative Principle and the Theory of Conversational Implicature, but also grasps themain idea of We Have Nowhere to Place Youth.