The Study of Idioms from the Speech Act Perspective Abstract English idioms are the essence of the language for English nations。 They are a traditional, short saying in common use。 The studies of English idioms at home and abroad mainly focus on the syntactic and semantic features of idioms, the relations between idioms and culture, idiom translations and their classroom teaching。 But little has studied idioms in accordance with Speech act theory。 To study the English idioms with the Speech act theory can provide us with more detailed knowledge of the usage and comprehension of idioms。 This dissertation focuses on the functions of idiom in terms of illocutionary force in linguistic communication from the contextualized aspect。 74229

Speech act theory studies language in a new way。 Instead of focusing on the grammatical structure of speech, it pays attention to how people perform some actions by speech and the consequence of the speech。 And this dissertation presented the study of the Speech act theory by Austin and Searle and their classification of the illocutionary acts。 And the study of the idioms in this dissertation is mainly based on the classification by Searle。

     This dissertation studies the idioms from the perspective of the illocutionary acts。 And it takes the sentence idioms as the object of study。 The idioms are mainly classified into the categories of assertives, directives, and expressives。 In each category, different illocutionary acts are used, like advising, requesting, wishing and so on。 The methodology used in this dissertation is qualitative analysis, by which a great deal of sentence idioms are adopted and analyzed。 Drawing on examples from literary works and spontaneous conversations, this paper will discuss idioms in pragmatic terms。

Keywords: English idioms, Speech act theory, illocutionary acts

言语行为理论下的英语习语研究

摘要英语习语是英语的精华。他们是传统、简练，并广为人民使用。国内外关于英语习语的研究主要关注习语的句法以及语义特征、习语与文化的关系、习语的翻译和课堂教学。但是很少有人运用言语行为理论来对英语习语进行研究。运用言语行为理论来对英语习语进行研究，可以帮助我们更加全面地理解和运用习语。本论文将习语置于上下文中，关注习语所表达的言外之力。 

言语行为理论从一个新的视角对语言进行研究。它不仅关注语言的语法层面，而且研究人们如何通过语言完成一种行为以及对语言产生的影响。本论文阐述了奥斯丁和塞尔的言语行为理论以及他们对言外行为的分类。本篇论文对英语习语的研究主要是建立在塞尔对言外型为分类的基础上。

     本论文从言外行为的视角对英语习语进行了研究，并且句式习语是本篇论文的主要研究对象。这些句式习语主要在阐述类、指令类、表达类框架下进行研究。在每一类中，对不同习语可以完成的行为，如表达建议、请求、祝愿等。本篇论文主要采用了定性研究的方法，通过分析大量的句式习语对其完成的言语行为进行研究，分析的习语主要来自于文学作品以及日常对话。

毕业论文关键词：英语习语；言语行为理论；言外行为

Contents

1。 Introduction 1

    1。1 Definition of Idioms 1

    1。2 The Aim 2

    1。3 Significance 2

    1。4 Organization 3

2。 Literature Review 4

2。1 Traditional Studies of Idioms