《阿甘正传》中阿甘的语言特色

郑州电子信息职业技术学院毕业论文课题名称：《阿甘正传》中阿甘的语言特色*者：***学号： **********系别：工商管理系专业：商务英语指导教师：***2013年05月17日Agam’s Language Characteristics in ForestGumpSubmitted By:He rui-ruiSupervisor: Zhang lin-naMajor: Business EnglishZheng Zhou professional institute of Information andElectronics,Zheng Zhou, ChinaMay, 2013摘要Agam’s Language Characteristics in Forest GumpAbstractAgam Gump is an epoch-making classic movies. Because the whole story of natural smooth, the art of highly infectious and the impact force, can be comparable with the Elvis Presley aliens and President Lincoln. The huge success of the movie, thanks to the film itself and to deepen the United States grand narrative theme and sublimation. It cleverly reveals the traditional and the modern poetic carnival, a true record of the metaphor of the traditional spirit of writing a fool, on the other hand, implicitly expressing a hippie on modern life to a play. While the film "Agam story" in the dialogue, due to special reasons Agam IQ and childhood growth environment, formed out of the ordinary non metaphorical language view. This paper studies the dialogue, mainly in what Agam said as the object.Keywords: Agam story; language featuresContentAbstract (I)Introduction (1)Chapter 1 The synopsis of movie "Agam Gump" (1)Chapter 2 The language features of Agam (2)2.1 Regional pronunciation (2)2.2 Concise language, popular (3)2.3 The use of personalized language (3)2.4 The use of slang (4)2.5 The use of rhetoric (4)2.5.1 The use of Euphemism (4)2.5.2 The use of irony (5)2.5.3 Metaphor (5)Chapter 3 Conclusion (6)References (7)Acknowledgements (8)IntroductionClassic film "Agam Gump" over the years has been widely praised by people, attracted many scholars to study it. Academia thinks, the film's success should be attributed to its film profound social meaning, cultural connotation and high-tech computer special effects. However, mining the character discourse of movie "Agam Gump" in English from the perspective of linguistics, a full analysis of the characteristics of discourse, in order to enable more people to appreciate and enjoy the unique charm of the movie in the characters of discourse.Agam story is the United States heavyweight director Robert Zemeckis in 1994, meticulously created a visual feast. The film adaptation of the play, because deep excellence, directed have great originality, actor Tom Hanks acting skills, movie clips delicate and vivid, visual effect is thrilling, eventually won the annual American Academy Award for best adapted screenplay, best director, best actor, best film editing, best visual effects, six Oscar awards. At that time, with sharp Bifeng good American time entertainment weekly magazine also praised it to perfection, because the whole story of natural smooth, the art of highly infectious and the impact force, can be comparable with the Elvis Presley aliens and President Lincoln. Great success Agam Gump, hand is certainly full of classic film industry dosomethinpreviouslyunreleased audience, on the other hand is the film the United States grand narrative theme acceptable, because Agam story reveals the traditional and the modern poetic carnival.Chapter 1 The movie "Agam Gump" synopsisThe film begins with Agam's memories. Agam is an IQ of only 75 imbecile. In high school, because of the extraordinary run can be appreciated, was promoted to admission into the University, and became a football star, by President Kennedy met. After graduation from the University, Agam was drafted into the army in vietnam. The end of the war, he served as "war hero" by President Johnson at the meeting. Agam break their own piece of the sky, in his life and made many American celebrity. Finally, Agam through the shrimp has become anentrepreneur. Although experienced many historical period of transformation, but Agam remain unchanged, simple and kind. Living in seclusion, Agam often miss their friends Jeanne. Finally one day, Jeanne came back. However, she and Agam living together for a period of time and then quietly leave. The loss of Jeanne Agam suddenly began to run across the United States,, and attracted many followers. In the run on the way, he received a letter from Jeanne, see the terminally ill Jeanne and their sons. The three men returned to his hometown, had a happy time. After the death of Jeanne, Agam a person to send her son to school, sitting in the bus stop bench, to passers-by about the experience of a lifetime...... So, how to appreciate this movie from the perspective of linguistic features? We can start with the characteristics of English films, and then combined with the film to make a concrete analysis .Chapter 2The language features of Agam2.1 Regional pronunciationAccording to the United States of America famous dialect scientist Hans published in Kurath1949 A Word Geography of the Eastern United States a book, American dialect can be divided into three dialect areas, namely the northern dialect (Northern), the central dialect (Midland) and the southern dialects (Southern), the hero of the film, Agam grew up in southern Alabama, pronunciation with the typical characteristics of the people in the south. First reflected in the nasal. As the vowel letters in M, n anterior nasal pronunciation is very heavy, such as Gump, behind, our own. Once again, the most obvious characteristic is the speech time slowly out (called Southern drawl), this is not only due to the slow way to pronounce, but the word stress vowels to "double vowel" (diphthongization) results, such as the yes /5jZIs/ read, class read /5K|AIs/. In addition, in the ending consonant clusters tend to swallow the last consonant sounds, such as the last read /las`/; kept /kep`/ read find read /fin`/. These pronunciation features enhances the authenticity of the film.Throughout the film, concise, popular expression can be seen everywhere, movie English material originates from the life, the object is the general audience, only their identity, the film will be successful. There are many examples of this in the film: "Seat 's taken", "sure will, Mama.", "Get the bikes", "Let' s get him! Come on!", "Where you at?", "It was co-ed", "You twins?" you can see these sentences with great the randomness, the use of oral, ellipsis, abbreviations, which accords with the principle of economy daily communication, ensure the timeliness of information transfer and rapidly; at the same time in words, direct use of popular, popular language, this feature to our actual oral communication has certain enlightenment, for example, in some oral communication, we should not use too formal, difficult to understand the words, so that not only will not give you the language points, will also affect the understanding of the listener to speak to you the meaning of, and even cause unnecessary misunderstanding.2.3 The use of personalized languageAs the saying goes "the writing mirrors the writer." is this truth. This point in the film embodied most incisive, this paper uses a large number of obvious mistakes in grammar of the sentence, such as "That 's how me and Mama got money" "There was always forks coming and going" "College ran by real fast", "I ran and ran just like Jenney told me to", "Because he didn' t have no leg", "Isn 't he beautiful?" in order to highlight the Agam 75 low IQ, the movie deliberately applied these mistakes in grammar of the sentence, the sentence (1) should be me with I; (2) the sentence, this should was use were; Article (3) sentence should be real with really; (4) the sentence should be like with as; (5) the sentence with the double negation; (7) the beautiful cannot be used to modify the boys; in addition, in words, Agam is also very personality. The expression of the Agam defect in wisdom, made a sharp contrast with his success in career. People came to this conclusion, a person's success is not how smart wisdom, but rather have the good opportunity, confirms the movie theme, won the American people's identity.Slang is informal idioms, they are deliberately used in place of standard terms in order to achieve the vivid, humorous, or other effects. Slang is an objective existence in the film have been frequently used language, with force, strong appeal and life. The movie slang develops rapidly, has become the United States of America culture is a special carrier. But the curse words is too much, and there are many, such as: pig, Gillian, imbecile, pus, ball, maggot, jerk, nuts etc.. Of course, the film and other cultural slang, such as "Red neck" (a), "Beatnik beauty" ("A duck in rebellious beauty) water" ("Out of blue sky feel just like a fish in water)" (suddenly) "Come on now, people, let 's get on the ball" (everyone come on, living together) "My legs are just fine and dandy" (my leg is very good). These slang in expressing the speaker's mood attitude at the same time, also add to the language effect.2.5 The use of rhetoricAs an art of language, English movie except with the popular spoken language, also often use a large amount of rhetoric to achieve the artistic beauty of film language, on one hand makes the language more image, contrast the character's personality, on the other hand, can give the audience a great aesthetic pleasure. The following are some common rhetoric movie "Agam story".2.5.1 The use of EuphemismEuphemism refers to people in language communication with some mild, pleasant, Geely, indirect words to replace some people feel terrible, terrible sounds, pain, unlucky or rude words; it is the lubricant of interpersonal relationship, as long as that good listening is the euphemism. The film uses a number of euphemism.Such as: (1) He might be a bit on the slow side. perhaps a little slow response. Americans prefer to use euphemism. In order to sounds not so harsh, they made a lot of expression "stupid" words, such as "mentally challenged", "innocent", "concentration problem". An expression of the sentence "on the slow side" is very gentle, actually refers to Agam's low iq. He should be in the "special school", or "mentally retarded school", instead of "specialschool". The film "retarded" is the word refers to the meaning of.Hancock: Is there a Mr. Gump, Mrs. Gump? Ms. Gump: He is on vacation. the white is very classic. The headmaster asked her husband when not in the mother to Agam, not say Are you devoiced? "And said that Mr. Agam was?". Agam's mother was very quick-witted, replied "he's on holiday", cleverly avoid saying "divorce" embarrassed, then asked Agam to mother at home "Mom, what 's vacation mean?" the answer is: "Vacation' s when it you go somewhere, and you don 't ever come back." in addition to Agam in the Vietnam service also uses a lot of Euphemism: "We are getting it hard. we suffered heavy losses." "We have incoming. we are under attack." "He liked to say the" F "word a lot. he loves to say" F "at the beginning of the curse".2.5.2 The use of ironyThe so-called irony, is a rich sense of humor or subtly sarcastic expression method, the words to express the meaning is contrary to with the usual sense of the word. The film a lot of places use of dramatic irony. Sometimes the irony is only in order to achieve the humorous effect, such as Agam in Vietnam in the gun, his statement is (1) felt like something just jumped up and hit me (as if there is something jumped up and bit me). Sometimes the irony is a kind of black humor, for example, (1) He was a very loving man., Jeanne's father was a very loving people, (2) because he was always touching her and her sisters (because he always touching her and her sisters). Agam also believes that the Vietnam War is looking for a man named (3) Charlie (Charlie) who, the United States government has effectively castigate evil.2.5.3 MetaphorThe simile is also very characteristic, to the audience, the analogy is simple, image, close to life. In relation to talk about Agam and Jeanne, said Agam We were like peas and carrots. we are like peas and carrots. Follow like a shadow. Peas and carrots, a circle, a square; a red, a green, in the United States when cooking as a staple food of embellishment, but both are at the same time. The extended to follow like a shadow. When talking about his run very fast, says Agam I of could run like the wind blows. I ran like the wind, vehicle and simple image.For example, in his own table tennis skills, Agam said to The hospital 's people said it made me look like a duck in water. hospital that I play table tennis will feel just like a fish in water. The most important of the analogy is popular this sentence Life is a box of chocolates, you never know what you are going to get. life is like a box of chocolate, you never know what you'll get a piece of. This is Agam mother after a long life experience, the mind sublimation until the philosophy of life, again will be easy to understand metaphor, in the dying leaves Agam's last will and Testament. This witticism and film at the beginning and end of the flying feathers echo, reveals the theme of the movie. Although the vehicle is very simple, but we appreciate, the English common vehicles may suddenly is not what we feel.Chapter 3 ConclusionAgam, a stupid, from primary school to university, a business from the army, and a storm has become a compulsory repair lawn. He comes from the ordinary, reverted to the ordinary. In his short memories, we know that others give his name is stupid, idiot, the only one known as goddamngemus because of his genius answer: the main purpose of the army is "you let me do what I do, without forethought." Because of this, life rewards him: he was successful, eventually obtain happiness, and has brilliant progeny. His appearance is not breathtaking, nothing heroic utterance, but with their own action to help the seemingly tough, mentally normal person. His behavior and achievement is that the essence of life is sincere, open and ordinary.In a word, Agam is a successful example of the United States of America anti-intellectual campaign, leading the audience to reflect the so-called rational elite consciousness and behavior mode; Jeanne phenomenon is a typical representative of the United States of America counterculture, led the audience to review the postmodern context, the United States of America's social civilization and values. The Agam story, modernist school represented by Jeanne, was a help to discard the classics and rebel against orthodoxy without a single success, hippies, and with Agam as the representative of the fool has become the symbol of a noble virtues, and hope, to become the real driving force and source of the development of theUnited States of america. This is the director Zemeckis to the United States of America reality parody and derision, because of the traditional and the modern poetic carnival is ironic allegory model in the film. The film shows, return to the traditional, diligent work, pick up since birth has consistently adhered to the thrifty Puritanism, piety and control values of the United States of America today and in the future, still have the effect and influence of extraordinary.References[1] Wu Jun movie "Legally Blonde" language characteristics analysis of [J]. film evaluation, 2007, (4): 23-25.[2] qinxiubai. English style and the style of [M]. Shanghai: Shanghai foreign language education press, 2002[3] Wang Xue-song English movies and English teaching evaluation of [J]. film, 2008, (2): 87-88.[4] Li Yue-lin English film appreciation teaching [J]. Sichuan: Foreign Language College Journal, 2003, (3): 148-150.[5] Li Xin-hua English rhetoric on [M]. Shanghai: Shanghai foreign language education press, 2000[6] Zheng Li-xin. American English and American culture [M]. Changsha: Hunan Education Press, 1993AcknowledgementsIn the paper completed, warm care I would especially like to thank my advisor Zhang Linna teacher and guidance. In the process of writing papers, Mr. Zhang devoted a great deal of effort and sweat, whether it is in the topics, ideas and information collection, or in the research methods and the finalization of the text, I have been teacher's careful instruction and the selfless help, especially Mr. Zhang extensive knowledge, profound academic accomplishment, rigorous scholarship and be strict in one's demands work style benefit me all my life, that sincere thanks and deep appreciation.In the process of writing papers, students have been many valuable suggestions, but also to a lot of support and help of many of my colleagues in the work process, also like to extend my sincere thanks. Thank all the care, support, help my good teachers and helpful friends。