Abstract

    The Politeness Principle is one of the important pragmatic principles. It has been studied in all kinds of fields, including academic activity, foreign language teaching, developmental psychology, social psychology, linguistic pragmatics, social anthropology, cultural studies, communication studies and gender studies. Nevertheless, throughout these study achievements, it can be found that the Politeness Principle is always studied in the field of pragmatics and these studies are too idealized, static and general. To break away from this study situation, the author views that combining the Politeness Principle with the analysis of dialogues in movies will be a good revelation in politeness research.
In this thesis, five of Leech’s six maxims are applied in the analysis of dialogues in Roman Holiday, including Tact Maxim, Generosity Maxim, Approbation Maxim, Agreement Maxim and Sympathy Maxim. Through the examples in the analysis of dialogues in the movie, it can be observed that the application of the Politeness Principle in dialogues is advantageous to smooth and friendly communication. By this means, people can have a better understanding of characters’ conversation, emotions and characteristics in this movie. Personalities of characters, relationship between characters and mental activities of characters can be understood preferably. In other words, when designing character dialogues, the Politeness Principle can be referred to in order to enhance the popularity of movies.

Key Words: Politeness Principle  Roman Holiday  maxims 
 
摘 要

礼貌原则是重要的语用原则之一，体现了语用现象的礼貌。国内外众多专家学者对礼貌原则也进行了广泛的研究，研究角度涉及各个领域，尤其是对礼貌原则在语用学的范围内进行研究。但是此前学者大多数的研究主要集中于理论方面，着重完善礼貌原则的理论体系，且研究过于理想化、静态化和笼统化。本论文试图突破之前的研究模式，讲礼貌原则实际应用到电影对白分析当中，从而丰富了礼貌原则的实践研究。
在本文中，作者运用利奇的六大准则中的其中五个准则包括策略准则、慷慨准则、赞扬准则、赞同准则以及同情准则，对电影《罗马假日》中人物的对白会话进行举例分析研究。通过分析，作者发现礼貌原则在对话中的应用有助于更加流畅、友好的交流。同时，作者试图让读者对电影《罗马假日》中人物的性格特征、人物之间的关系以及心理活动有进一步的了解，从而认识到礼貌原则的运用在设计人物对白从而增强电影受欢迎程度方面的重要作用与意义。

关键词：礼貌原则 罗马假日 六大准则