[公告] DFLL Faculty Colloquium
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標題: [公告] DFLL Faculty Colloquium
時間: Tue Mar 28 21:27:18 2006
國立台灣大學外國語文學系學術演講
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 文學院第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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