2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Discourse thematization in James Joyce's novels
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25370564
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
English linguistics
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| Research Institution | Kansai Gaidai University |
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Principal Investigator |
Kikuchi Shigeo 関西外国語大学, 英語キャリア学部, 教授 (70204831)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
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| Keywords | discourse theme / discourse rheme / textual thematization |
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| 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.
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| Free Research Field |
文体論
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