An Analysis of Conflict Talk in the Film of Elizabeth from the Perspective of Speech Acts Theory

Abstract

Speech Act Theory (SAT) mainly focuses on the phenomena of actions performed via speaking and is an indispensable research technique in both pragmatic analysis and literary appreciation. Conflict talk is a common linguistic phenomenon in interpersonal conversations, which takes consecutive and ambiguous language turns as specific form. Although scholars have made some progress in conflict talk and its analysis by using SAT, their research results only focuses on the conflict talk itself which may overlook some countermeasures. Therefore, in order to get a more comprehensive and in-depth result, this paper will proceed from SAT perspective and combine with pragmatic analysis to finish the research of the conflict talks in the film of Elizabeth.