Discourse thematization in James Joyce's novels

• Project/Area Number: 25370564
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: English linguistics
• Research Institution: Kansai Gaidai University
• Principal Investigator: Kikuchi Shigeo 関西外国語大学, 英語キャリア学部, 教授 (70204831)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2015)
• Budget Amount: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000); Fiscal Year 2015: ¥260,000 (Direct Cost: ¥200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥60,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥260,000 (Direct Cost: ¥200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥60,000); Fiscal Year 2013: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
• Keywords: discourse theme / discourse rheme / textual thematization / 主題(theme) / 題術(rheme) / 主題化(thematization) / functional / discourse / mediation / border crossing

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Following the theory of textual thematization at the level of fictional narrative discourse, this research centered around how Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom in James Joyce’s Ulysses are walking representations of "two candles" set at the head of a dying Dublin. This is one instance of a grand design which is repeated in many of his novels. All the speech acts done in his novels carries the secondary meaning following this theme-rheme structure.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] The Two Walking Candles in James Joyce’s Ulysses (2016)
  • Author(s): Shigeo Kikuchi
  • Journal Title: Journal of Literary Semantics (Mouton de Gruyter, Germany) Volume: 45(1) Issue: 1 Pages: 77-89
  • DOI: 10.1515/jls-2016-0006
  • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Presentation] James Joyce’s Creation of Free Flowing Thoughts across Characters’ and Reader’s Boundaries of Consciousness (2015)
  • Author(s): Shigeo Kikuchi
  • Organizer: The 6th International Conference on Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts
  • Place of Presentation: Univ. of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
  • Year and Date: 2015-06-11
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] 作者の意図への気づきを指導する (2015)
  • Author(s): 菊池繁夫
  • Organizer: 日本英文学会第87回全国大会シンポジウム 「文体論に基づく英語教育再興」
  • Place of Presentation: 広島大学
  • Year and Date: 2015-05-24
• [Presentation] How to develop linguistic/textual awareness in reading a literary text (2015)
  • Author(s): 菊池繁夫
  • Organizer: 現代英語談話会
  • Place of Presentation: 仁愛大学
  • Year and Date: 2015-03-15
• [Presentation] The walking two candles in James Joyce's Ulysses (2014)
  • Author(s): 菊池繁夫
  • Organizer: International Association of Literary Semantics 2014 (IALS 2014)
  • Place of Presentation: University of Kent, UK
  • Year and Date: 2014-07-03 – 2014-07-05
• [Presentation] The walking two candles in James Joyce's Ulysses (2014)
  • Author(s): 菊池繁夫
  • Organizer: International Association of Literary Semantics 2014 (IALS2014)
  • Place of Presentation: University of Kent, UK
• [Presentation] James Joyce's Creation of Free flowing thoughts and his deracinated life across cities
  • Author(s): 菊池繁夫
  • Organizer: Travelling Narratives: Modernity and the Spatial Imaginary
  • Place of Presentation: University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
• [Book] 英語文学テクストの語学的研究法 (2016)
  • Author(s): 菊池繁夫・上利政彦（共編著）
  • Total Pages: 368
  • Publisher: 九州大学出版会
• [Book] Language and Style in English Literature (Edited by Ken, Nakagawa, Akiyuki Jimura and Osamu Imahayashi) (2016)
  • Author(s): Shigeo Kikuchi （共著）
  • Total Pages: 231
  • Publisher: Keisuisha
• [Book] （共著）『近代英語協会創立30周年記念論文集』（編集委員会代表 中川憲） (担当: Shigeo Kikuchi 'James Joyce's free indirect thought and the two candles in Dubliners', pp. 373-384) (2014)
  • Author(s): 菊池繁夫
  • Total Pages: 453
  • Publisher: 英宝社
• [Book] （共編著）'New Horizons in English Language Teaching: Language, Literature and Education' (Selected Papers from the Kansai Gaidai IRI Forum)豊田昌倫・菊池繁夫 共編 (担当: Shigeo Kikuchi 'Author's voice from between the lines: A functional view of literary discourse', pp. 131-148) (2013)
  • Author(s): 菊池繁夫
  • Total Pages: 368
  • Publisher: 関西外国語大学