A Conversation-based Analysis of Protagonist's Character in Wuthering Heights from the Pragmatics Perspective

作者：陈晓波

来源：海外英语, 2017, (05): 208-210.

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• Three to One&quot
• Theory
• character
• protagonist &quot
• protagonist

Conversation makes one what he is. As the protagonist in Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff’s character was revealed evidently and in his conversation with Mr. Lockwood, the first narrator in the story. According to the Qian Guanlian’s"Three to One"Theory of Pragmatics, the cluster of sighs adhering to the speaker, including the adhering things, facial expression and gestures, voice and breath, takes part in speech events and bring out the pragmatic meanings. Hence Heathcliff’s character can be analyzed from this perspective.

• 出版日期2017
• 单位湖南工学院