青岛农业大学
本科生课程论文
论文题目从文化语境解读《实习医生格蕾》
中的文化语境
学生专业班级英语2011级1班
学生姓名（学号）伏栩叶20115754
指导教师王竹青
完成时间2014. 12. 6
二O一四年十二月六日
From the Cultural context to Analyse the Conversational Implicature
in Grey’s Anato my
Fu Xuye
Class 1, 2011, Foreign Languages School, Qingdao Agricultural University
Abstract: For understanding the conversational implicature, social cultural context has play an important role. Nowadays the medical TV drama has been one of the most popular genres. As a representative work, Grey’s Anatomy has provided rich language materials but few pragmatic studies have been conducted on it.Social cultural context is very important to understand the conversational implicature. This thesis will try to analyses the conversation from the cultural context, in order to help the reader better to understand Grey’s Anatomy. Key words:cultural context; conversational implicature; Grey’s Anatomy
从文化语境解读“实习医生格蕾”中的文化语境
摘要：社会文化语境对解读会话含义有着非常重要的作用。在当今社会中，医务电视剧受到了广大观众的欢迎，而“实习医生格蕾”是这些作品中的成功代表。它剧本中的人物对话为语言研究提供了丰富的语料。文章试从理解会话含义的重要因素：文学文化语境，艺术文化语境，政治文化语境，经济文化语境，宗教文化语境，社会风俗文化语境等方面对《实习医生格蕾》的会话含义进行解读，旨在为观众更好地理解《实习医生格蕾》提供借鉴。
关键词：文化语境；会话含义；《实习医生格蕾》
1. Introduction
1.1 Background: A Brief introduction of Grey's Anatomy
Grey’s Anatomy is a very popular medical TV drama in the United States. This play became the Thursday primetime ratings champion when it premiered in March 27, 2005 at the American Broadcasting Company. It also obtained 11 nominations in 2006 on "the 58th US TV Emmy Awards." It describes five young interns’ work, life and touching love story which rolled artistic, entertainment and medical professionals into one, not only has been praised by critics, but also increasing the number of viewers. And it has become a wonderful work of the medical drama in recent years.
Grey’s Anatomy takes place in a large comprehensive teaching hospital. In the hospital, everybody coming and going, where has the birth and died; where has one-night stand,
triangle, homosexuality, extramarital affairs and other emotional entanglements; where has Chest Medicine, Orthopedics, Surgery and various medical department; where has mergers, layoffs, and other economic management issues; where has love and betrayal; where has romantic and friendship. The story is about Grey and other interns who just graduated from medical school, came to Seattle Grace Hospital, and embarked on a path to become official doctors. On this way, what accompanied them are doctors who have different personalities but equally demanding doctor, and cases which from extraordinary to those cases even no name, as well as tangled love life between them. The Grey’s narration brings the audience into the story, and into the characters’ rich inner world.
1.2 Research Significance
With the development of professional drama, comes the growth of medical TV drama as a representative type of programming. Medical TV drama influences the audience deeply on their feelings, ways of thinking and manners of performances which are close to that they imagine the lives of medical staff may be. However, linguistic researches on medical TV drama are quite limited and those done in decades of years ago have also been out of date. The conversational implicature in Grey’s Anatomy is illustrated with cultural context. Through analyzing how the six cultural context influence the conversational implicature, this thesis made contribution to the interpretation of the real intention of the main characters and the implicit information carried by those dialogues. Thus it shed some light on the new approach of Medical TV Drama.
The research is both of profound theoretical and practical significance. As for theoretical significance, this thesis aims to analyze medical care discourses in the famous medical drama Grey’s Anatomy from a pragmatic approach based on the conversational implicature. As for practical significance, the thesis fills the gap of traditional drama studies by discussing the conversational implicature of a new type of drama—medical TV drama. This research also gives some practical implications for improving communication skills in daily. Besides,the author of this thesis finds that the dialogues of this drama contribute a lot to the creation of character image and help move the plot. These conversations help present the story vividly in front of audiences.
2. Literature Review
Scholars from different research fields have showed great interest in studying medical discourses and medical dramas. This chapter is aimed at going over the existing research results from the following.
In western academia, Fowler (1986) stresses the importance of analyzing conversation implicatures for appreciating dramatic language and making literary critisicm. He shows a
