| Jane Eyre, composed by British authoress Jane Austin, enjoys great popularity from generation to generation. There has been a great deal of study and analysis over Jane's personalities from perspective of feminism. This paper is trying to intensively figure out the personalities of Jane Eyre through the window of Conversational Implicature so as to deepen the understanding of the work.This paper reviews the established researches and criticisms on Jane Eyre from the perspective of literature, and briefly introduces the development on Cooperative Principles which offers a theoretical ground to Conversational Implicature beneath Jane Eyre's wordings. Cooperative Principles and its maxims have thrown light on the relationship between meanings and their corresponding indications, accounting for the approaches in which conversational implicatures rise. However, the theory is poor in explaining why people just flout the maxims repeatedly by covering their true ideas or speaking indirectly in real communications. As Leech's Politeness Principle and Brown & Levinson's Politeness Theory can just make up this deficiency of Cooperative Principle, they are utilized to help explain the intention of the speakers in the diction dialogues, which might lead to a thorough understanding of author's ideas and the characters'conversational implicatures.This paper gathers a great number of classic dialogues for discussion and has all of them carefully classified according to the maxims it flouts. Both the qualitative and quantitive methodology are adopted in the thesis. Through the qualitative analysis, the deep meanings of hero/heroine's utterance in the context of the novel can be revealed, which are often found enriched with implied meanings. By the qualitive analysis, the distribution of the violation of the maxims of CP and the function of PP can be reflected clearly. The statistics shows that the speakers in Jane Eyre violate the quality maxim most. From the result of quantitve study of Politeness Principle and Politeness Theoy, it can be learned that the speakers pay much attention to the politeness in conversations and off-record strategy is employed most frequently in performing the FTA(Face threatening act). The study intends to extend the critical vision towards Jane Eyre through pragmatic point of view and be of some help to those readers who has preference for it. |
