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1、AStudyontheCharacteristicsoftheUseofDialectinCharlesDickens’sDavidCopperfieldXiangQihongClass4,Grade2012,SchoolofForeignLanguagesandLiterature,ChongqingNormalUniversityAbstract:DavidCopperfieldistheeighthnovelwrittenbytheEnglishnovelistCharlesDickens.Itistosomedegre
2、eabiographicalnovel.Hesaysintheprefacetothenovelthat“ofallmybooks,Ilikethisthebest.”Ascharactersofthisnovelcomefromvariegatedplacesandareofvariegatedorigins,theauthorusesdifferentkindsofdialectstodepictcharactersinspecificways(Adialectreferstoavarietyofalanguagethat
3、ischaracteristicofaparticulargroupofthelanguage’sspeakers).Dialectsspokeninthenovelseemstrangeandevenincomprehensibleatfirstsight,butitisfoundbymeansoftextualanalysisthattheyarestillgovernedbyrules,followingwhichthesedialectscanbewellmatchedwiththeStandardEnglish.Th
4、erefore,thisthesisaimstoinvestigatesuchrulessoastoprovideguidanceforunderstandingthedialectsintheoriginaltext.KeyWords:DavidCopperfield,dialect,textualanalysis1.IntroductionThischapterintroducesthebackground,significance,methodology,andstructureofthisthesis.1.1Resea
5、rchbackgroundManyscholarshavestudiedDavidCopperfieldfromvariousperspectivesbecauseofthenovel’soutstandingachievementsinitsliteraryvalueanditsdetaileddepictionofcapitalisminthemiddleofthenineteenthcenturyinEngland.Somescholarsapproachthenovelfromtheperspectiveoftrans
6、lation.Forexample,ShuLan(2005)studiedtheinfluenceofideologyandpoeticsontranslationbasedonthenovel.ChenQi(2005)analyzedfourofitstranslationsthroughculture.ShiShu(2004)employedthepoly-systemtheorytocomparetwotranslations.Someapproachitfromtheoriginaltext.Forexample,Zh
7、angJing(2008)studiedfemalecharactersinthenovel.HeHuiying(2012)analyzedthelinguisticcharacteristicsofseveralcharactersinthenovel.Someapproachthenovelfromlinguistics.Forexample,TangYanbing(2005)analyzedthe8stylisticcharacteristicsofthenovelfromtheperspectiveoflinguist
8、ics.JinZhibo(2012)comparedtheoriginaltextandthesimplifiedversionfromtheperspectiveoftheideationalgrammaticalmetaphorandinterpersonalgramma