从合作原则违反角度分析《老友记》对白的修辞特色

《老友记》是美国NBC电视台从1994年开播,连续播出了10年的一部幽默情景喜剧,也是美国历史上甚至是全球范围最成功,影响最大的电视剧之一。该剧的成功不仅得益于那异想天开的剧情,高潮迭起的故事,俊男靓女们的精湛表演,更得益于那轻松诙谐的人物对白。这些对白为语用研究提供了丰富的语料,借助合作原则理论对这些语料进行研究,不仅可以探索影视语言的语用修辞特色,还有助于更好地理解人物性格、心理及故事内容。

Analyzing Rhetorical Features of the Dialogues in Friends by Violation of Cooperative Principles

Friends is a comic sitcom revealed in 1994 by American NBC TV station and continuously broadcasted for 10 years.It’s one of the most successful and influential sitcoms in American history or even in the whole world.The success of this play not only comes from the fantastic story,the story climaxes,beautiful people’s superb performances,but also comes from the comic dialogues.The dialogue provides a rich corpus for pragmatic study.Studying these dialogues with the cooperative principle can not only explore the pragmatic and rhetorical features of video-visual language,but also contribute to a better understanding of the character,psychology and story.