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1、TheLinguisticFeaturesofO’Henry’sShortStories班级_____________学号_____________姓名____________分数__________ImpactofCulturalDifferencesonBusinessinForeignMarketsAbstractO’Henryisoneofthegreatestshortstorieswritersintheworld,。Inlanguage,O’Henryusesmanyrhetorictacticstoachiev
2、etheeffortofmakingthestoriesmorevividandmorehumorous,likeirony.Thecharactersinhisshortstoriesarefromalltheclassesofsociety.Hisstoriesareconsideredas“theencyclopediaofAmericanlife”.Inthethesis,thefeatureofO’Henry’sshortstory,humor,iselaboratelyanalyzed.KeyWords:O’Hen
3、ry;shortstories;humor13Contents1Introduction……………………………………………………………………11.1Background………………………………………………………………11.2PreviousstudyofO’Henry’sworks………………………………………12TheLifeofO’HenryandHisLiteratureAchievements…………32.1O’Henry’sPersonalInformation……………………………………….…32.2O’Henry
4、’sWorks............................................…………………….………43TheFeaturesofO’Henry’sWorks..............................53.1Humor………………………………………………………………………….63.1.1UniversalHumor……………………………………………………….63.1.2CultureHumor…………………………………………………73.1.3LinguisticHumor………………
5、…………………………………….83.1.3.1AttheLexicalLevel…………………………………………….83.1.3.2AttheSyntacticLevel……………………………………….94.Conclusion………………………………………………………………105.Bibliography………………………………………………………………11131.Introduction1.1BackgroundO’Henry,oneofthethreemostfamousshortstorywritersintheworl
6、d,enjoystheequalstatuswithChekhovandMaupassant.Hisstoriesarefamousfortheirunexpectedending,vividimaginationscoupledwithkeenobservations,aswellasexquisiteconception.InordertocarryforwardthefinetraditionofO’Henry’sworks,theO’HenryMemorialAwardhasbeenpresentedsince1918
7、forthebestpublishereachyear.ManycriticsinAmericaandothercountriescommentonO’Henryandhisworkswithrespecttohisbiography,theingeniousarrangementofhisworks,thetypicalcharactersandplots,andthecriticalimplicationofhisworks,tonamebutafew.Criticsoftenregardhimasawriterwhopu
8、tsmoraljudgmentandsocialcriticismintohisuniquestylewithhumor,satire,burlesqueandobviouscomicinclinations.1.2PreviousStudiesofO’Henry’sWork
