Analysis of Characters' Utterances from the Perspective of Politeness Principle
— Based on Pride and Prejudice
Abstract
Pride and Prejudice is a famous British novelist Jane Austen’s classic masterpiece in 19th century. This novel mainly tells the story about two lovers, one is pride and the other has prejudice on her lover. It widely reflects British country life and the events. This paper utilize Leech’s Politeness Principle illustrate the characters’ utterances in the novel. According to the observation and violation of Politeness Principle and the different effects of the two aspects, I will show readers the importance of observing Politeness Principle in daily communication. Readers can get a deeper understanding of western culture in practice.
Key words: Pride and Prejudice, characters’ utterance, Politeness Principle
Contents
1. Introduction-1
2. Demonstration2
2.1 General introduction to Politeness Principle 2
2.1.1 Explanation of Leech's Politeness Principle 3
2.1.2 Opinions of Politeness Principle which promoted by others -3
2.1.3 Utilization of Politeness Principle in different fields 4
2.2 Observation of Politeness Principle based on Pride and Prejudice 4
2.2.1 Interpretation of six maxims in Politeness Principle -5
2.2.2 Analysis of conversations in Pride and Prejudice according to six maxims -6
2.2.3 Effects of observing Politeness Principle 9
2.3 Violation of Politeness Principle in Pride and Prejudice 10
2.3.1 Analysis of characters' conversations on account of violating Politeness
Principle -10
2.3.2 Effects of violating Politeness Principle -12
3.  Conclusion -13
Works Cited 14
Bibliography 15