Abstract

In recent years, dialect television programs show a rapid development trend and achieve considerable ratings with distinctive regional color and people-friendly expression mode. This thesis applies Verschueren’s Linguistic Adaptability Principle into the analysis on the linguistic features of dialect television programs from a pragmatic perspective. This paper synthesizes language, cognition, society, culture and other factors to conduct comprehensive research on adaptions in dialect television programs. The results show the reason why dialect television programs enjoy great popularity is that their linguistic features comply with the Linguistic Adaptability Principle, making adjustments to the audience’s cognitive psychology and regional demand. 

Key words: television dialect programs, linguistic features, adaptability analysis 

CONTENTS

Abstract

摘要

1. Introduction 1 

 1.1. The development of dialect television programs.1

 1.2. Brief introduction of Verschueren’s Linguistic Adaption Theory.1

   1.3. Research contents and methodology .2

2.The linguistic features of dialect television programs from pragmatic perspective

2.1. Using onomatopoeia2

2.2. Using local glossary.3

2.3. Using metaphor3

2.4. Using metonymy4

2.5. Using plain language to substitute formal language5 

2.6. Using bilingual scenes.5

3. Adaptability analysis on the linguistic features of dialect TV programs.6

   3.1. In terms of language users.7

   3.2. In terms of the mental world.7

   3.3. In terms of the social world.8

4.Conclusion 9

   4.1. Adaptations in dialectal television programs.9

   4.2. The necessity for keeping dialect television program10

References 11