※ [本文转录自 NTU02DFLL 看板] 作者: elishading (小艾) 看板: NTU02DFLL 标题: [公告] DFLL Faculty Colloquium 时间: Tue Mar 28 21:27:18 2006 国立台湾大学外国语文学系学术演讲 DFLL Faculty Colloquium Professor Hengsyung Jeng’s Farewell Lecture: The Literary Effects of Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass Interpreted in Terms of Two Speech Act Theories Speaker：Professor Hengsyung Jeng (DFLL Professor) Venue：College 20th Classroom 文学院第20教室 (1st floor, Liberal Arts Building; below College Conference Room) Date：Wednesday, April 12, 2006 Time：3:30 ~ 5:00 pm Abstract: In Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass, the protagonist Alice encounters in the Mirror World numerous situations and expressions that are incomprehensible to her. Because of her puzzlement and confusion, she often runs into arguments with the other characters in this story. Her arguments with the other characters are generally caused by the pragmatic factors of different world views and dissimilar speech act principles between her and the other characters. The literary effects of this story mainly derive from such arguments. This talk aims to interpret the literary effects of this story in terms of the pragmatic factors of world views in relation to two speech act theories put forward by Grice (l975/1985) and Leech (1985): the Cooperative Principle of the former and the Politeness Principle of the latter. It has been found that these two speech act theories can provide reasonable explanations of the literary effects of this story based upon Alice ’s arguments with the other characters. This story Through the Looking Glass explores the bizarre situations and characters in the Mirror World (MW), which is completely opposite to the Real World (RW) where Alice comes from. Thus the plot of this story is arranged on the basis of a chess game in the MW. In this world of mirror-image and chess game, Alice often runs into arguments with the other characters because of different world views and dissimilar principles of speech acts. For example, when the live flowers criticize Alice that “you never think at all” and that no one is “stupider” than Alice (LG: 209), Alice gets very angry, because the live flowers are not polite according to Leech’s Politeness Principle, blatantly violating the maxims of Tact, Approbation and Modesty. Examples like this contribute a great deal to the literary effects of this story. Most of the characters in their conversational exchanges often violate Grice’ s Cooperative Principle and Leech’s Politeness Principle. Their violations of these two speech act principles result in conflicts and arguments, thereby bringing about the literary effects of surprises and amusements. Carroll is a great hand at describing how the characters in this story violate principles of speech acts in order to create original literary effects. This talk presents explicitly the principles of speech acts violated in this story and relates them to the specific literary effects he has created. Contact person: TA Hsiu-ting Jian (3366-3212) --

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