美剧《犯罪心理》的会话含意分析_英语论文

Conversational Implicature in Criminal Minds

摘要

近年来，悬疑探案系列电视剧在国内深受广大观众的欢迎，热播十年的美剧《犯罪心理》就是其中的典型代表。当今国内学者对该剧的研究主要集中在心理特征、讯问技巧和叙事策略等方面，很少有人对其中的会话含意现象进行分析和研究。本文基于会话含意理论，从《犯罪心理》中精选了许多典型的对话，对其中的规约含意、一般会话含意以及特殊会话含意分别进行了研究。本文对于会话含意理论的应用研究提供了一些帮助和启示，同时丰富了悬疑探案系列美剧的语用学研究。另外，本文通过会话含意解读可以更好地揭示剧中人物的性格，对英语爱好者进一步欣赏和理解此类美剧也有一定的借鉴作用。

关键词:《犯罪心理》；规约含意；一般会话含意；特殊会话含意

Abstract

In recent years, American crime dramas became very popular in China. Criminal Minds is a typical example of this kind of dramas, which has been hotly broadcast for more than ten years. Nowadays, more and more scholars start to put efforts on the study of Criminal Minds. These researches mainly focus on the psychological characteristics, interrogative skills or narrative strategies, but few scholars pay attention to the conversational implicature in this drama. This thesis chooses a large number of typical dialogues to carry out a detailed analysis of conversational implicature in Criminal Minds. Through analyzing the conventional implicature, generalized conversational implicature and particularized conversational implicature of these typical dialogues in the TV series, this study can provide a new horizon for the research of conversational implicature. It also enriches the pragmatic studies on American crime dramas. Moreover, this kind of conversational implicature analysis can help the audience understand the personalities of those characters in this drama deeply, and it can also enable English learners to enjoy crime dramas better. 

Keywords:  Criminal Minds  conventional implicature  generalized conversational impicature  particularized conversational implicature

Contents

Acknowledgements I

Abstract II

摘 要 III

Chapter One Introduction 1

1.1 Introduction to Criminal Minds 1

1.2 Reasons for the Study 1

1.3 Significance of the Study 2

1.4 Structure of the Thesis 2

Chapter Two Previous Studies on Criminal Minds 3

2.1 Psychological Characteristics 3

2.2 Interrogative Skills 3

2.3 Narrative Strategies 3

2.4 Comments on Previous Study 4

Chapter Three Conversational Implicature in Criminal Minds 5

3.1 Conversational Implicature 5

3.2 Conventional Implicature in Criminal Minds 5

3.3 Generalized Conversational Implicature in Criminal Minds 7

3.4 Particularized Conversational Implicature in Criminal Minds 8

Chapter Four Conclusion 13

4.1 Findings of the Study 13

4.2 Suggestions for Further Study 13

References 14