摘要
Charles Dickens is one of the greatest critical realist writers of the Victorian Age.In language,he is often compared with William Shakespeare for his adeptness with the vernacular and large vocabulary.Charles Dickens achieved a recognizable place among English writers through the use of the stylistic features in his fictional language.Oliver Twist is the best representative of Charles Dickens’style,which makes it the most appropriate choice for the present stylistic study on Charles Dickens.No one who has ever read the dehumanizing workhouse scenes of Oliver Twist and the dark,criminal underworld life can forget them.This thesis attempts to investigate Oliver Twist through the approach of modern stylistics,particularly the theory of linguistic devia tion.This thesis consists of an introduction,the main body and a conclusion.The introduction offers a brief summary of the com ments on Charles Dickens and Chapter X of Oliver Twist,introduces the newly rising linguistic deviation theories,and brings about the theories on which this thesis settles.The main body explores the deviation effects produced from four aspects:lexical deviation,grammatical deviation,graphological deviation,and semantic deviation.It endeavors to show Dickens’manipulating language and the effects achieved through this manipulation.The conclusion mainly sums up the previous analysis,and reveals the theme of the novel,positive effect of linguistic deviation and significance of deviation application.
Charles Dickens is one of the greatest critical realist writers of the Victorian Age. In language, he is often compared with William Shakespeare for his adeptness with the vernacular and large vocabulary. Charles Dickens achieved a recognizable place among English writers through the use of the stylistic features in his fictional language. Oliver Twist is the best representative of Charles Dickens' style, which makes it the most appropriate choice for the present stylistic study on Charles Dickens. No one who has ever read the dehumanizing workhouse scenes of Oliver Twist and the dark, criminal underworld life can forget them.This thesis attempts to investigate Oliver Twist through the approach of modern stylistics, particularly the theory of linguistic devia tion. This thesis consists of an introduction, the main body and a conclusion. The introduction offers a brief summary of the com ments on Charles Dickens and Chapter X of Oliver Twist, introduces the newly rising linguistic deviation theories, and brings about the theories on which this thesis settles. The main body explores the deviation effects produced from four aspects: lexical deviation, grammatical deviation, graphological deviation, and semantic deviation. It endeavors to show Dickens' manipulating language and the effects achieved through this manipulation. The conclusion mainly sums up the previous analysis, and reveals the theme of the novel, positive effect of linguistic deviation and significance of deviation application.
出处
《海外英语》
2013年第19期239-241,277,共4页
Overseas English
