Abstract—Diego, depicted as a protagonist in the film Ice Age
2, has complicated character and plays a very important role,
who symbolizes a certain group of people in our daily life. This
paper figures out Diego’s character type in Ice Age 2 and
shortcomings of this type, so as to provide methods of getting
along with people like him in our daily life. To achieve these
goals, the author employs qualitative and quantitative methods
to analyze his utterances and character factors in the real
contexts based on Geoffrey Leech’s Politeness Principle and the
DiSC model. First, the author extracts Diego’s 141 utterances
and those of others that are closely related to his from the film
script and categorizes them into different maxims of Geoffrey
Leech’s Politeness Principle. Then, the author analyzes his
utterances obeying and violating these six maxims in the real
contexts and finds that he has 15 character factors. After this,
the author adds up these factors belonging to the same character
type to find his final type. Among these 15 factors, ten of them
fall into the Dominance (D) character type, which far
outnumbers that of character factors falling into other types,
indicating that he has the D character type. Finally, the author
finds that people owning D character type like Diego has five
character shortcomings and gives five relevant suggestions on
how to avoid the character shortcomings of people owning the D
type like Diego according to the DiSC model, which helps build
better relationships with other people.
Index Terms—Characters, diego, DiSC model, politeness
principle, utterances.
The authors are with the Changan Campus of Northwestern Polytechnical
University, Xi’an, Shannxi Province, China (e-mail: 1816608345@qq.com,
ruanhm@nwpu.edu.cn).
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Cite:Jun Qin and Hongmei Ruan, "Analysis on Diego’s Characters in Ice Age 2 Based on the Politeness Principle and the DiSC Model," International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 18-26, 2022.