COMM317 : Media and Human RIghts
As Hagrid reveals the key relative nodes of the Philosopher ’ s Stone , Harry now knows about Nicolas Flamel and the trick for passing the three-headed beasts and this achieves a qualitative leap in their exploration . The leakage of these two key pieces of information directly leads to the three of them to going to the secret room to stop the stone from being stolen .
In addition to the obvious violations of co-operative principle in Hagrid ’ s discourse as shown in the examples above , it is interesting to note that while some of the information provided by Hagrid may seem redundant for this conversation but cannot clearly be classified into overinformative behaviour , on the other hand , it also promotes the plot . The data below is selected from the first part of the film , a conversation between Hagrid and Mr Vernon :
00:18:26 - 00:18:46 Hagrid : This boy ’ s had his name down ever since he were born . He ’ s going to the finest school of witchcraft and wizardry in the world , and he ’ ll be under the finest headmaster that Hogwarts has ever seen , Albus Dumbledore .
Dursley . According to Yule ( 1996 ), speech act focuses on the entire contextualised speech . In the interaction that Hagrid with Dursley , literally , Hagrid is giving an introduction about the school Harry will enter , however , the illocutionary act is to make a warning and threaten to Dursley . The implied information address gave an intriguing response . In the underlined sentences , Hagrid ’ s dialogue and in particular , its reverence and excitement , intentionally provides Harry with a vivid insight into the world he is about to enter . Harry ’ s response to Hagrid ’ s sentence is naturally to follow Hagrid and a similar effect is seen when Hagrid goes to Gringotts to extract the philosopher ’ s stone , as demonstrated below :
00:25:58 - 00:26:04 Harry : What ’ s in there , Hagrid ? Hagrid : Can ’ t tell you Harry . Hogwarts business . Very secret .
01:18:17 - 01:18:29 Harry : The day I was at Gringotts , Hagrid took something out of the vaults . Said it was Hogwarts business , very secret .
The perlocutionary act produced by this sentence is worthy of notice . Two address contained in this screen , Harry and Mr
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Different from those examples mentioned above , instead of reacting immediately in the next performance or language , the