Yang Xiu Who Kills Himself by Catenating Pragma-rhetorical Failures
This paper probes into Yang Xiu's death by analysing Yang's cases in the novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms,in light of Pragma-rhetorical Principle and its Pragma-rhetorical Model of Analysis.It is found that Yang's death is caused by his own pragma-rhetorical failures.Most of the cases are rhetoric-pragmatically prominent and socio-pragmatically prominent,and Yang demonstrates pragma-rhetorical competence in the former cases and catenating pragma-rhetorical failures in the latter.Yang obeys Maxim 2(informativeness),Maxim 3(truthfulness),Maxim 5(clarity),Maxim 7(humorousness,interestingness etc.)and Maxim 8(sufficient practs),but noticeably he disobeys Maxim 1(general goal),Maxim 4(considering identity,relationship etc.),and Maxim 6(politeness values).The tug of war between the above obedience and disobedience,in Yang's socio-pragmatic context,highlights disobedience,resulting in his tragic dying young.
Yang Xiu's deathPragma-rhetorical PrinciplePragma-rhetorical Model of Analysispragma-rhetorical failures
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