南方医科大学本科毕业论文(设计)开题报告题目 A Pragmatic Study on the Theme –Revenge in Wuthering Heights《呼啸山庄》中的复仇主题的语用学研究学院外国语学院专业商务英语年级2011 学生姓名指导教师姓名指导教师职称一、选题依据（拟开展研究的目的、意义以及国内外相关研究情况：）Pragmatics is a young science and a branch of linguistics that deals with the meanings and effects of language in use in particular circumstance. After it was introduced into China, a lot of scholars at home used it to study novels and other literary works.Wuthering Heights written by Emily Bronte, is a novel filled with many emotions and activity. Her characters represent an on going conflict between love and hate. Published in 1847, Wuthering Heights didn’t gain immediate success, many of whom condemned it as sordid, vulgar, and unnatural. It was not until 1850, when Wuthering Heights received a second printing with an introduction by Emily’s sister Charlotte, that it attracted a wide readership. Today it is widely regarded as one of the great novels of English literature.As pragmatics has been developing in recent years, and pragmatic analysis of many version of literary works or films has gained increasing focus. It provides us a new study method to analysis Wuthering Heights.Therefore, analyzing Wuthering Heights from the perspective of pragmatics is meaningful.So far, scholars abroad and at home study this novel mainly from the perspective of feminism and narratology, stylistics and realism theories. However, few people abroad or at home analyze the novel from the perspective of pragmatics. This paper aims to use pragmatics to study the dialogues of heroes to dig out the implicature of their implied meaning.二、研究方案（主要研究目标、内容、方法、及步骤）Ⅰ. Research aimsIn the hope of proving the thematic clues of Wuthering Heights–revenge, and providing a new way for reader to appreciate novel, this paper attempts to study Wuthering Heights by using pragmatics. The pragmatic theories in this paper include Cooperative Principle and Conversational Implicature maxim of Grice which provide a theory frame and research tool for the analysis of the dialogues in Wuthering Heights. The Cooperative Principle and its maxims explain the implied meaning, and explain how to generate and understand the conversational implicature. After many times of analysis, it can reveal the thematic clues of this novel on one hand, on the other hand, it can prove its constant attractiveness, and clarify the validity of using pragmatic theories in analyzing literature works. It can also shed light on the understanding and appreciation of novels.Contents1. Background of the Study(background, purpose, significance, thesis organization)2. Literature ReviewReview of Previous Studies of Wuthering HeightsReview on the Theories of Pragmatics3. Analysis of the Conversations in Wuthering HeightsRevenge on the First Generation3.1.1 Revenge on Catherine3.1.2 Revenge on Edgar Linton3.1.3 Revenge on HindleyRevenge on the Second Generation3.2.1 Revenge on Hareton3.2.2 Revenge on Little Cathy4. Conclusion5. References三、文献综述内容（附主要参考文献）：1. 迟兰天，女性地位和女性意识的成长-《呼啸山庄》的女性主义解读；From the perspective of feminism, through analyzing the female social status under the control of the patriarchal tradition based on the author’s life experience and the social background, this paper discussed women’s status and growth of female consciousness in British Victorian Age as seen in Wuthering Heights. By analyzing the living condition of female characters in the novel, the study was to reveal how women in the Victorian Age began to challenge and fight against the traditional ideology.2. 高继海，《呼啸山庄》的主题与叙事；Based on the narrative strategy, the article summarized the past critical evaluations of Wuthering Heights, analyzed the reasons why it was neglected in the 19th century and highly praised in the 20th century, and pointed out that the circumstance was related to the irrationalism in the novel. Then the novel’s theme of love and revenge was discussed, love being based on congruence instead of complementarities, and revenge being extremely cruel and horrible.3.孟祥莲，《呼啸山庄》叙事策略对文本意蕴生成的独特作用；This thesis explored the effect of narrative time for text connotation in Wuthering Heights according to the summary for the strategy of narrative time. To a certain extent, this thesis supplemented the blank of comprehensive analysis for narrative time. The integrated analysis for the strategy of narrative time in Wuthering Heights helped us find a new source of text connotation which is another road to the study of text implication.4.孙树文，穿越时空的声音-试论《呼啸山庄》中的现代主义因素；This thesis researched the modernist factors in it, including the exploration of the warped mentality and alienation of the heroes, the symbolism technique of expression, and the description of dreams in Wuthering Heights.References[1].Arnold Kettle, (1951). An Introduction to the English Novel[M]. London:Hutchinson Press.[2].Emily Bronte, (2011). Wuthering Heights. Nanjin: Yilin Press.[3].Grice, . (1975). Syntax and Semantics: Logic and Conversation [M]. New York:Academic Press.[4].Shaozhong Liu, (2015). What is Pragmatics [OL].Quoted on March 26, 2015.[5].[OL]. Quoted on March 26, 2015.[6].迟兰天，（2011），女性地位和女性意识的成长[MA]。