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Title: Stephen Dedalus Linguistic Maturity by Sentence Growth Complexity In James Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
Authors: Bouhadiba Farouk
SAADOUN, Farida
Keywords: Irish Literature
linguistic analysis
stylistic analysis
linguistic maturity
syntactic complexity
parataxis
hypotaxis
stylistic variation
sentence typology
language expansion
buildingsroman
Issue Date: 2007
Abstract: This study investigates whether there is a compatibility between the type of sentences used by the hero in ‘A portrait of the Artist as a young man’ and his developing maturity or competence. The study focuses on types of relationship between clauses ( structural and logicosemantic ones) as a means to clarify the possible syntactic arrangements a long the novel and their possible interpretation. Thus , the study attempts to answer the following research questions: 1- How did Joyce proceed to express his hero’s maturity through his selection of types of relationship between clauses? 2- Does the move from simple and paratactic construction towards hypotactic ones really reflect the hero’s developing linguistic competence? 3- What are the most important reasons and effects that stem out of the use of those different structures? The study builds upon works and findings of Halliday’s Functional Grammar and some developmental psycholinguistic( Piaget, 1926) hints in order to mismatch the psychological and mental state with the grammatical one. Results show that: a) Simple syntactic structures are frequently used by the hero when he was a child( only 29,73% of complex sentences) the syntactic simplicity is on a par with the semantic one. b) As Stephen grows up and is exposed to more experiences and events, he shows an increasing number of simple ones(57,01% of complex sentences). c) By the end of the novel, Stephen, the young artist, keeps using complex structures but we notice an increasing number of simple ones( paratactic) (41,47% the percentage of complex sentences decreases). This is indicative of the relative maturity of the hero and his return to’ Infancy’’ to start again his life in exile. Infancy here is not meant to be biological one but spiritual one at the point of Stephen’s resolution. As regards the teaching and learning of syntax through literature, the study suggests the principal of sentence-combining with all its possible exercises. Besides, some activities enhancing literary competence are proposed.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/632
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