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Abstract
This thesis aims at offering the intended meaning in Pearl Buck’s The Good Earth from a pragmatic perspective. The pragmatic tools used in this thesis are Speech Acts, Politeness as well as Mass Consciousness. Speech Act theory analyzes utterances as performing actions. Pearl S. Buck was an American writer and novelist. She grew up in China, where her parents were missionaries. Buck began to write in the age of twenties; her first novel, East Wind, West Wind, appeared in 1930. It was followed by The Good Earth (1931), Sons (1932), and A House Divided (1935), together forming a trilogy on the saga of the family of Wang. The thesis is arranged systematically into THREE chapters and a conclusion. Chapter one highlights the schema of the research by shedding light upon a general introduction of pragmatics and also contains a brief biography of Pearl Buck and presenting her major works. Chapter two sheds light on innovation of speech act theory, and how it would account for meaning in Pearl Buck’s The Good Earth. Chapter three is concerned with Mass Consciousness and Linguistic politeness. The researcher presents a historical and theoretical framework of the phenomena and focuses on the strategies of politeness in his application on the data collected from the novel by Pearl Buck. The researcher will point out the results that he reached by analysing the novel by Pearl Buck via the pragmatic tools.