Some Strategies of Concealment in Hardy’s Language
The focus of this analysis on three major novels of Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D’Urbervilles, The Return of the Native and Far From the Madding Crowd will study aspects of language, phonetics and stylistics in these three books. Manipulating language effectively entails a certain level of education....
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openedition-oai:revues.org:fathom_172 https://doi.org/10.4000/fathom.172 urn:doi:10.4000/fathom.172 en https://journals.openedition.org/fathom/172 2013-10-23T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/gahb All rights reserved Some Strategies of Concealment in Hardy’s Language FATHOM Association française sur les études sur Thomas Hardy info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2270-6798 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/fathom Loriaux, Emilie roman langage lettre phonétique stylistique registre sociolinguistique dissimulation novel language letter phonetics stylistics register sociolinguistics concealment The focus of this analysis on three major novels of Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D’Urbervilles, The Return of the Native and Far From the Madding Crowd will study aspects of language, phonetics and stylistics in these three books. Manipulating language effectively entails a certain level of education. In general, formal English, or at least “Standard” English, is used in narrative text, dialogues or poems. However, in Hardy’s novels, the words are not only written, but they can be read orally and we find a gap, even a paradox between what is written and what is said. All through the novels, this ambiguity is strengthened by various language registers. Words are means of both written and oral communication. Fitted together, they create sounds and give to Hardy’s sentences a second meaning. Indeed, Hardy’s heroes and heroines fit into their rural landscape and try to cross the line which symbolically divides them from worldly, urban society, by correcting their pronunciation or code of language. A reel of words weaves its way through those outward cultures or language groups. Through both silent and audible forms of communication, words may reveal hidden links within this microsociety. Consequently, Hardy’s words might be seen as a series of letters or literary missives, whose purpose is to convey a message to the reader. Some methods and techniques of assembling letters and sounds to represent specific dialectal forms of expression will provide the core of this article. Cette étude, centrée sur trois œuvres majeures de Thomas Hardy : Far from the Madding Crowd, The Return of the Native et Tess of the d’Urbervilles, s’oriente vers les aspects linguistiques – phonétique et stylistique – de la langue anglaise à la fin du XIXe siècle. Les « lettres » peuvent être tout d’abord comprises comme un ensemble des connaissances et des études littéraires et relèvent d’une certaine éducation. Elles reflètent donc un anglais soutenu, ou tout du moins « standard », que l’on retrouve dans les passages lettrés et narratifs, voire même dans les poèmes. Néanmoins, les lettres ne sont pas seulement écrites, mais peuvent être lues oralement, soulevant ainsi une ambiguïté entre l’écrit et l’oral et plus généralement sur le langage. Dans la société hardyenne, cette équivoque est renforcée par différents registres de langue. En effet, les héros et héroïnes de Hardy appartiennent au paysage pastoral et tentent de franchir la frontière qui les sépare de la société mondaine de la ville en modifiant leur code de langage. Une ronde des mots se profile au travers de ces deux cultures langagières que pourtant tout oppose. Autour d’une communication audible ou silencieuse, la lettre ou les lettres sont révélatrices de liens sociaux qui se tissent dans cette microsociété. Subséquemment, chez Hardy, ces lettres peuvent être perçues comme un ensemble de missives littéraires destinées à véhiculer un message au lecteur. Par ailleurs, cet article vise à saisir quelques méthodes et techniques dont l’écrivain usa pour harmoniser lettres et sons et créer son propre graphisme dialectique. |
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The focus of this analysis on three major novels of Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D’Urbervilles, The Return of the Native and Far From the Madding Crowd will study aspects of language, phonetics and stylistics in these three books. Manipulating language effectively entails a certain level of education. In general, formal English, or at least “Standard” English, is used in narrative text, dialogues or poems. However, in Hardy’s novels, the words are not only written, but they can be read orally and we find a gap, even a paradox between what is written and what is said. All through the novels, this ambiguity is strengthened by various language registers. Words are means of both written and oral communication. Fitted together, they create sounds and give to Hardy’s sentences a second meaning. Indeed, Hardy’s heroes and heroines fit into their rural landscape and try to cross the line which symbolically divides them from worldly, urban society, by correcting their pronunciation or code of language. A reel of words weaves its way through those outward cultures or language groups. Through both silent and audible forms of communication, words may reveal hidden links within this microsociety. Consequently, Hardy’s words might be seen as a series of letters or literary missives, whose purpose is to convey a message to the reader. Some methods and techniques of assembling letters and sounds to represent specific dialectal forms of expression will provide the core of this article. |
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