Pragmastylistic Analysis Of The Filmic Text Scent Of A Woman

This thesis takes the discourses in the filmic text—Scent of A Woman as the subject of study, making an analysis in terms of Pragmastylistics in an attempt to reveal the important role that Pragmastylistics plays in interpreting the plot, the interpersonal relationship and the characters'speech style in the film.The Pragmastylistics is an interdisciplinary study involving both Linguistics and Stylistics. Based on the pragmastylistical approach to interpret the filmic discourse to achieve a full understanding of the plot, interpersonal relationships and the characters'speech style of the whole film, this thesis attempts a framework to interpret the filmic dialogue from both the dynamic and static level, with the hope that it helps enhance the audiences'aesthetic appreciation of the film. The main findings are:1. Regarding to the dynamic level, the violation of the Cooperative Principle can not only interpret the implied meaning of the discourse on a micro-level, but also can shed light on unfolding the dynamic development of the plot in terms of pragmatic inference on a macro-level; the change of the subtle interpersonal relationship is fully displayed through the explanation of indirect speech in the film discourse on the basis of the Speech Act Theory, and the observance and violation of the Politeness Principle.2. With respect to the static level, to analyze the characters'speech by means of pragmatic theories can make the audiences have a taste of various characters'speech style, as well as a better understanding of the characters'striking individual traits.3. The theme of the ethical film with the combination of dynamic and static factors is displayed step by step.It is hoped that the analysis of the filmic text Scent of A Woman can provide new insight into the analysis of filmic discourse, which will help the audiences better understand the theme of the film, and form the framework to interpret the filmic discourse as well.