廊坊师范学院本科生学年论文题 目：Analysis on the Dialogue in The Kings Speech from the Perspective of Politeness Principle学生姓名：袁亚利指导教师： 王钟锐二级学院： 外国语学院系 别： 英语系专 业： 英 语年级班级： 2012级1班学 号： 12030141022完成日期： 2015年1月7日Title: Analysis on the Dialogue in the Kings Speech from the perspective of politeness principleAbstract: The nature of language is to communicate. Communication is a bridge ,through which people can transfer and get the information they need. The movies dialogue is also the way to communicate .It is an important way to describe the characters inner feelings ,activities and their characteristics. The film tries to inflect its communication purpose by the dialogues. In this paper, I will use Leechs Politeness Principle and Browns Face Theory to analyze the dialogue in The Kings Speech,and make a deep analysis on its characters so as to let readers have better admirations on this movie. At the same time ,if we use our pragmatic knowledge ,we can understand the films deep meaning and its arts feature .Key words: Politeness Principle ;Non-public Politeness Dialogue ; Discourse Analysis1. Introduction The film shows its communication aims through dialogue, which can not only the audience understand the development of plot also can deepen the understanding of authors intention.Hence, through analyzing the films dialogue can dissect characters inner feelings ,activities and his characteristics so as to help audience understand the film better.Leechs Politeness PrincipleAmerican linguistics H.P.Grice proposed the Cooperative Principle(CP for short) in the William James lecture delivered at Harvard University. Grice thinks that people all use CP both consciously and unconsciously when they use language to communicate. However, Grices Cooperative Principle is not explain sufficiently (1)why people are often so indirect in conveying what they mean and(2）what is the relation between sense and force when non-declaration types of sentences are being considered1 As a result, in 1983,Leech proposed Politeness Principle so as to rescue the CP from trouble. Leech believes the main reason that people violate CP intently is the consideration of politeness.From the perspective of rhetoric and stylistics,Leech (1983)lists six specific maxims,as summarized in the following:Tact Maxim, Generosity Maxim, Approbation Maxim, Modesty Maxim, Agreement Maxim and Sympathy Maxim.Apart from Leech ,Brown and Levinson(1987) proposed the Face Saving Theory too. In their view, face can divide into positive face and negative face.The positive face indicates to get peoples agreement and praise;the negative face indicates the basic clame to territories,personal preserves,rights to non-interference.Brown and Levinson(1987) also proposed Face Threaten Acts(FTA for short). When people communicate, it always threats the faces of two parts. So, the speaker should obey the Politeness Principle in order to save not only his face, but also the hearers face.They call politeness redressive strategies which contain three part .We only talk about the non- public politeness.It shows speakers implicit polite.2. Dialogue AnalysisThe Kings Speech is based on the true story of King George VI.After the death of his father and the scandalous abdication of King Edward VIII,Bertie who has suffered from a speech impediment all his life, is suddenly crowned King George VI of England. Because of his stammer and cowardice,he can not deliver a speech in public. His wife,the Queen Elizabeth,tries her best to find doctors to treat him .Finally, with the Lionel Logues help, King George VI overcomes his stammer and deliver a radio-address that inspires his people and unities them in the battle.This paper tries to analyze the dialogue of the main characters through Politeness Principle.1 Scene:Lionel Logue is sitting on the crown ceremony chair King George VI(K for short): Get up! Y-you cant sit there! GET UP!Lionel Logue(L for short): Why not? Its a chair.K: T-that. that is Saint Edwards chair.L: People have carved their names on it.King George VI tries to persuade Lionel Logue not sit on that seat, which is Saint Edwards chair.But L does not listen.He thinks it just a chair ,just so ordinary.There is no difference compared with other chairs.while ,King George thinks it very important .Nobody can sit on it ,only Saint Edward.It is the represent of status.Here, L violates the Agreement Maxim through showing the different opinion about the chair. Whats more ,L also hurts King George VIs positive face.In the dialogue ,By saying “Get up! Y-you cant sit there! GET UP!”and”T-that. that is Saint Edwards chair”,King George VI wants L understand it is a special chair and wants him to get up.But L does not listen.From the two points ,we can see Logue is a person who is despise the power and he pursues freedom .2 Scene: the quarrel between King George VI