Pragmatic Analysis of Yu Hua's Novel To Live

As a subfield of linguistics developed in the late 1970s, pragmatics studies how people comprehend and produce communicative act or speech concrete situation which is usually conversation. A pragmatic analysis set linguistic techniques used by analysts to create systematic accounts texts. They aim find whole range inferences that reader listener might make when confronted with writer's speaker's locutions context. This research paper tries focus on language discourse, context, its function novel To Live based Politeness Principle, Hedging strategies, Cooperative Principles, Conversational Implicature, Speech Act. It may help readers deep understanding see from different angles.