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The Analysis of Anti-heroic Characteristics of Eggsy in Kingsman from the Perspective of Cooperative Principle



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LIU Jing, MA Wen-li

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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2020.01.009

School of Foreign Language, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China

Cooperative Principle was first proposed by American linguist H. P. Grice. It is the regularity in conversation, which means make your conversational contribution such as is required, at the stage at which it occurs, by the accepted purpose or direction of the talk exchange in which you are engaged. Anti-hero is a concept opposed to a traditional hero, whose characteristics are totally contrary to traditional aestheticism. Lack of the noble beliefs and goals in life, anti-heroes are often pessimistic and eccentric. The movie Kingsman is directed by Matthew Vaughn, whose story is aroundthe protagonist Eggsy. The focus of study is characteristic subversion from a common person to a hero. At present, most of the researches at home and abroad only focus on the characteristics of anti-heroes or from the aspect of violenceaesthetics or the film literature analysis, there is few analysis of the film language charm, and even fewer studies analyzethis movie from the perspective of linguistics. In this paper, the corpus is selected from Kingsman.Firstly, it introduces the concept of CP and the anti-hero as well as the related researches in recent years. It aims to analyze the anti-heroic characteristics of Eggsy through literature and theoretical analysis, and CP as a theoretical framework. Therefore the literary significance of Kingsman can be found and “heroes” will be redefined.

CP, anti-hero, Kingsman