Based on the speech theory and guided by the principles of contemporary rhetoric, sociolinguistics, and stylistic, the thesis attempts to examine the regional opera from the perspective of speech communication and language utilization. Among the various kinds of regional operas, Huangmei Opera has been chosen as the object to implement a special case study not only because the author' s familiarity but also because it is a special speech existence. Besides, the Huangmei Opera owns a lot of particularities such as the stylistic of vocabulary, the grammar, and the rhetoric, all of which ensure its research value. The thesis will focus on its stylistic, and then find out the behind objective contexts and subjective factors. The thesis can be divided into five chapters. The first chapter is the introduction, which is going to prove the restrictive opera belongs to the category of speech act and explain the reasons of choosing Huangmei Opera as the research object. Through analyzing 112 classic transcripts, the second chapter is trying to generalize the Huangmei Opera' s stylistic characteristics from the aspects of vocabulary, grammar and rhetoric. The following chapter three will compare the formerly gained characteristics internally and externally. The internal comparison includes the use of language comparison between different characters: the comparison between the lyrics and spoken parts; the comparison between traditional big plays, namely the plays with complete plot and certain numbers of scenes, and traditional small plays; and the comparison between traditional plays and new plays. With regard to the external comparison, the author will compare the Huangmei Opera with some other regional operas which have comparable influence in An' hui Province such as the Lu Opera. Furthermore, chapter four will examine the Huangmei Opera within the context of the social communication, and try to dig out the contextual factors which help form its stylistic characteristics. The last chapter the author will deliver the conclusions. Keywords Speech, Huangmei Opera, Stylistic, Lu Opera, Context

本文嘗試以言語理論爲基礎，以現代修辭學、社會語言學、語體風格學的理論爲指導，將戲曲作爲一種言語存在，從言語交際、語言運用的角度出發，以黃梅戲爲例，力圖客觀地描繪黃梅戲這一地方戲曲的語體風格，包括詞彙方面的語體特色、語法方面的語體特色以及修辭方面的語體特色，幷探討導致這些語體特色形成的主観、客觀語境因素。 全文共分爲五個部分。第一部分爲引論，論證狹義戲曲屬于言語行爲範疇，說明以黃梅戲作爲研究載體的思路；第二部分，通過分析112個黃梅戲經典劇目，總結歸納黃梅戲體現在詞彙、語法、修辭上的語體特色；第三部分，對黃梅戲語體特色進行內部和外部比較。內部比較包括：唱詞和道白語言使用的比較、不同人物角色語言使用的比較、黃梅戲傳統大戲與傳統小戲語言使用的比較、黃梅戲傳統戲與新編戲語言使用的比較。外部比較的對象，則選取與黃梅戲一樣，同在安徽發展壯大，幷有衆多相同劇目的廬劇；第四部分，把黃梅戲放到交際活動的過程中進行考察，探討造成這種言語行爲具有上述語體特色的主客觀語境因素；第五部分爲結語。 關鍵詞 言語；黃梅戲；語體；廬劇；語境