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1、语用学视角下喜福会中两代人的文化冲突与融合摘要:本文从语用学的视角出发,运用语用学的两个重要的理论,言语行为理论和合作原则,从喜福会的文本出发,分析两代人的对话的语用意义,从而探究出两代人从文化冲突向文化融合的过程。通过对文章中数百处文章对话的筛选和探析,找出了能够体现母女由文化冲突向文化融合转变的对话。并结合语用学理论对文中20处语料进行语用分析,对文化冲突到文化融合的主题进行深入的探究。体现出喜福会中四对华裔母女来到美国,为了生存下来,努力将自己融入美国经历了许多困难,以及在培养女儿的过程中如何处理尖锐的冲突和矛盾,从而达到两种文化的融合。这样才能更好的将小说对话基于扎实的理论基础之上,能
2、更准确的分析出会话含义,深刻得体现出主题。关键字:喜福会;语用学;文化冲突;文化融合;会话含义Cultural Conflicts and Integrations between the Two Generations inThe Joy Luck Club from Pragmatic PerspectiveAbstract: this paper analysis talks between two generations based on two importantmethodologies of Pragmatics to find out useful pragmatic mean
3、ings from theirconversations and reveal the process of two generation from conflict to integration.Besides, reading many books, periodicals, and paper about Pragmatics to make senseof the background of this novel helps to understand the essence of this paper with thecombination of Pragmatics. Throug
4、h typical 11 conversations, we have betterunderstanding about the process from cultural conflicts to cultural integration. In thissense, there is a strong methodology foundation to highlight the theme, whichcontributes to analyzing the implication of conversation.Key words: The Joy Luck Club; Pragma
5、tics generation; conflict; integrationContentsIntroduction1Research background1Research significance2Organization of this research2PartI Pragmatic Theory31.1 Speech Act Theory31.2 The cooperative Principle4PartII Pragmatic Analysis of cultural conflicts in The Joy Luck Club62.1 An introduction to cu
6、ltural conflicts62.2 Pragmatic analysis of conflicts of language72.3 Pragmatic analysis of conflicts in marriage81 .3.1 Pragmatic analysis of cultural conflicts over equality in marriage8232 Pragmatic analysis of cultural conflicts over freedom9PartUL Pragmatic analysis of cultural integration in Th
7、e Joy Luck Club113.1 An introduction to cultural integration113.2 Pragmatic analysis of cultural integration of Chinese American femaleidentity between mother and daughter121 .2.1 Pragmatic analysis of cultural integration of Chinese American femaleidentity from mothers perspective12322 Pragmatic an
8、alysis of cultural integration of Chinese American femaleidentity from daughters perspective13Conclusion15Bibliography16IntroductionResearch backgroundRecently, as the science and technology has sharply developed, the developmentof globalization has connected different countries to a whole big famil
9、y, besides, theworld is becoming smaller and smaller. In other words, now the world has become aglobal village. As a result, it is likely for individuals to connect with foreigners.Because of culture differences, people are prone to misunderstand each other in theprocess of communication. So, in ter
10、ms of important theory of pragmatics, theintentional meaning in the communication can be inferred more easily whichcontributes to reducing misunderstandings.Secondly, Chinese-American literature has attracted more attention in academiccircles and Chinese-American novelists have gained a good reputat
11、ion in the literaryfield. With the attainment of plenty of Chinese-American literary novelist, theChinese-American literary has stepped in a new era. Later, as Amy Tans The JoyLuck Club has delivered, the Chinese-American literary works has attained morereputations in literary circle and Amy Tan als
12、o gained her fame. Next, she createdmore talented works, such as The Kitchen Gods Wife in 1991, the hundred secretsenses in 1995, the bonesetter s daughter in 2001 Since her great intelligence andwonderful novels, her works has been translated into thirty five languages and alsoadopted into excellen
13、t film later.There is no doubt that The Joy Luck Club is an amazing noveL It tells aboutseveral stories of four mothers of immigration from China to American and depicted avivid picture of the life of these immigrants and their daughters in San Francisco,which has exerted a great influence on both A
14、mericans and Chinese immigrants inforeign countries.In this novel, as four pairs of mother and daughter go through two differentcultures or more, there sees plenty of conversations both violating the cooperativeprinciple and following the four maxims, which can further improve that pragmatictheory i
15、s contribute to analyzing the meaning of sentence and helping tocomprehending literary works- In order to know why the two different cultures collidewith each other and how to decrease cultural conflicts as much as possible, specificconversations are chosen to analyze the process from cultural confl
16、icts to culturalintegration.Research significanceLiterature and language also are indispensable parts in literary works. However,in the early years, scholars partly focus on feminism, female identity, symbolicmeaning, oriental and western element, and both conflicts and integration in motherand daugh