The theory of speech act was originally proposed by British philosopher J.L. Austin, and later American philosopher Searle made further improvements to this theory. The theory of speech act begins by studying the functions of everyday language. Austin believes that the unit of verbal communication is not a sentence, but a verbal behavior through sentences, such as thanks, warnings, promises, and so on. Austin divides speech acts into three categories: intra-behavioral behavior, illocutionary behavior, and post-verbal behavior. Searle believes that each sentence has a certain potential extra-judicial power. This potential extra-judicial power is an integral part of the sentence meaning. Each meaningful sentence can be used by means of its meaning.
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His plays contain a lot of irony. In particular, the dialogue between people in the drama is basically in the form of dialogue. The playwright Bernard Shaw's “The Flower Girl” is a classic in the history of English literature. It tells the story of how the professor trained a poor flower girl and eventually made it acceptable to the upper class. The playful humor of the play not only demonstrated the superb language writing ability of the playwright Bernard Shaw, but also demonstrated the careful portrayal and in-depth observation of different sections of the British society at that time. After that, Hollywood was remake of the movie "My Fair Lady," and she has achieved great success. The language has distinctive and unique artistic features. The irony dialogue between characters and the irony of the characters are extremely critical and sarcasm. This gives the audience a sense of dedication. However, his research mainly focuses on characters' fate, sociolinguistics, and translations. From the perspective of linguistics, especially the theory of speech act, there is relatively little research on the analysis of the linguistic features of the drama “The Flower Girl”. The “Flowers of Flowers” uses a large number of irony techniques to provide a rich source for this research. Therefore, the irony of verbal behavior theory is a meaningful and innovative topic for the study of Shaw's ironic drama as a text. This dissertation intends to interpret the irony in the play "The Flower Girl" from the perspective of speech act theory in order to understand more deeply the ironic meaning of the author's
His plays contain a lot of irony. In particular, the dialogue between people in the drama is basically in the form of dialogue. The playwright Bernard Shaw's “The Flower Girl” is a classic in the history of English literature. It tells the story of how the professor trained a poor flower girl and eventually made it acceptable to the upper class. The playful humor of the play not only demonstrated the superb language writing ability of the playwright Bernard Shaw, but also demonstrated the careful portrayal and in-depth observation of different sections of the British society at that time. After that, Hollywood was remake of the movie "My Fair Lady," and she has achieved great success. The language has distinctive and unique artistic features. The irony dialogue between characters and the irony of the characters are extremely critical and sarcasm. This gives the audience a sense of dedication. However, his research mainly focuses on characters' fate, sociolinguistics, and translations. From the perspective of linguistics, especially the theory of speech act, there is relatively little research on the analysis of the linguistic features of the drama “The Flower Girl”. The “Flowers of Flowers” uses a large number of irony techniques to provide a rich source for this research. Therefore, the irony of verbal behavior theory is a meaningful and innovative topic for the study of Shaw's ironic drama as a text. This dissertation intends to interpret the irony in the play "The Flower Girl" from the perspective of speech act theory in order to understand more deeply the ironic meaning of the author's