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1、PragmaticAnalysisoftheDialoguesintheFilmTheGreatGatsby-科技創(chuàng)新論文PragmaticAnalysisoftheDialoguesintheFilmTheGreatGatsbyPragmaticAnalysisoftheDialoguesintheFilmTheGreatGatsby武娜王紅濤（河南工業(yè)大學外語學院，河南鄭州450001）WUNaWANGHong-tao(SchoolofForeignLanguage,HenanUniversityofTechnology,ZhengzhouHenan450001,Chi

2、na)[Abstract]TheGreatGatsby,iswellacknowledgedasFrancisScottFitzgerald’smasterpiece.Itissopopularthatithasbeenmadeintofilmsforfivetimes.ThispaperistryingtoanalysisthedialoguesinthelatestfilmversionofitfromthepragmaticperspectivebasedonGrice’sconversationalimplicature,cooperativeprinciplean

3、dLeech’spolitenessprinciple.[Keywords]Conversationalimplicature;Cooperativeprinciple;Politenessprinciple;TheGreatGatsby1IntroductionTheGreatGatsby,iswellacknowledgedasFrancisScottFitzgerald’smasterpiece.Sinceitspublication,attentionshavebeendrawntoit.Ithasalsobeenmadeintofilmsforfivetimes,

4、whichshowsitspopularityintheworld.AccordingtoCooperman(1996),TheGreatGatsbyachieved“objectivity”bymeansof“l(fā)etthebooksaywhatithastosaywithoutintrusiveexplicationand‘stayoutofthebook’”.T.S.Eliotpraisedthatitwas“thefirststepthatAmericanfictionhastakensinceHenryJames”(Donaldson,1984).NormanPag

5、e(1973)statesthat“dialogueinafictionmayneverthelesshelptodevelopa‘plot’andenrichthereader’sunderstandingof‘character’and‘background’whileatthesametimenoothermannerofpresentationcouldprovide.”Thus,thecharacters’conversationalexchangesinthefilmarenotdecoration,butanimportantwayofreflectingch

6、aracters.Throughdialogues,characters’motivewillberevealedclearly.TheconversationsplaysuchavitalroleinthedevelopmentofthestoryandmakethecharactersofthefilmmorevividthatitisnecessarytomakeananalysisofthedialoguesinthefilmTheGreatGatsby.Thispaperistryingtoanalysisthedialoguesinthelatestfilmve

7、rsionofTheGreatGatsbyfromthepragmaticperspective.2PragmaticTheories2.1ConversationalImplicatureDuringourdailycommunicationswithothers,weusuallythinkmoreaboutwhatapersoninferstotransferbyhisorherliteralmeaning.Trytoidentifythedelicatedistinctionbetweenthesurfac