VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES %4314300064006 NGUYEN KIM OANH A MINOR THESIS ON: A STUDY ON HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL BACKGROUND AND THE NEWNESS OF LANGUAGE USE IN ‘PRIDE AND PREJUDICH? BY JANE AUSTEN (NGHIÊN CUU CO SG LICH SU, XA HOI VA TINH MOI CUA VIEC SU DUNG NGON NGU TRONG TAC PHAM ‘KIE HÃNH VÀ ĐỊNH KIEN’ CUA JANE AUSTEN) Field: Linguistics Code: 602215 HANOI — DECEMBER 2012 VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI NOT UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STU FACULTY OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES “— ee NGUYEN KIM OANH A MINOR THESIS ON: A STUDY ON HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL BACKGROUND AND THE NEWNESS OF LANGUAGE USE IN ‘PRIDE AND PREJUDICE BY JANE AUSTEN (NGHIÊN CUU CO SG LICH SU, XA HOI VA TINH MOI CUA VIEC SU DUNG NGON NGU TRONG TAC PHAM ‘KIEU HANH VA ĐỊNH KIÊN' CUA JANE AUSTEN) Field: Linguistics Code: 602215 Supervisor: Dr. Pham Dang Binh HANOI — DECEMBER 2012 TABLE OF CONTENTS: Page Acknowledgement i Abstract. Table of contents iti PART 1: INTRODUCTION L, Rationale of the study. Aims and objectives of the study.
3, Methodology of procedures 3. 1 Design of the staily 3. 2, Data collection and date analysis 4. Scope af the study.
PART 2: DEVELOPMENT CHAPTER I. Definitions of key terms. LLL, Discourse and discourse analysis 1. Language use Lnglish Literature realize what made Austen one of the most successful female novelist of the century.
Right from the start, the researcher expected to find out the historical and social background of the British Literature and briefly analyze the language use in ‘Pride and Prejudice’ which exposed Austen's distinctive writing style. Last but not least was the researcher's desire to understand the novel, which was twally related lo the conlzoversial matter of love and love expressing 3, Methodology of procedures 3. Design of the study The study was divided into three main parts. While Part One dealt with the general information which contained the rationale, aims and objectives, methodology and scope of the study, Part Two went into further details of the historical and social background; and the newness of language use in Jane Ansten’s Pride and Prejudice through four chapters.
‘I'he suggestions for further research would not be ommitled. in the last. Data collection and data analysis The study used the descriptive and contextual methods of data collecting and analyzing. Basing on tho huge resources of library and internet materials, the researcher analyzed and then agglutinated those ideas into her own brief clear and understandable viewpoints.
On the other hand, several differences im the changeable literal bends of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries would be briefly stated in her Analysis on how main characters exposed their own ‘pride’ and ‘prejudice’ in some certain circumstances through the three volumes 4. Act PART 5: CONCLUSION J. Newness of language use. 2 The matter of love and love expressing.
Coutributions af the stiedy 4. Suggestions for further studies. RLFERENCES APPENDIX I Lnglish Literature realize what made Austen one of the most successful female novelist of the century. Right from the start, the researcher expected to find out the historical and social background of the British Literature and briefly analyze the language use in ‘Pride and Prejudice’ which exposed Austen's distinctive writing style.
Last but not least was the researcher's desire to understand the novel, which was twally related lo the conlzoversial matter of love and love expressing 3, Methodology of procedures 3. Design of the study The study was divided into three main parts. While Part One dealt with the general information which contained the rationale, aims and objectives, methodology and scope of the study, Part Two went into further details of the historical and social background; and the newness of language use in Jane Ansten’s Pride and Prejudice through four chapters. ‘I'he suggestions for further research would not be ommitled.
in the last. Data collection and data analysis The study used the descriptive and contextual methods of data collecting and analyzing. Basing on tho huge resources of library and internet materials, the researcher analyzed and then agglutinated those ideas into her own brief clear and understandable viewpoints. On the other hand, several differences im the changeable literal bends of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries would be briefly stated in her Analysis on how main characters exposed their own ‘pride’ and ‘prejudice’ in some certain circumstances through the three volumes PART 2; DEVELOPMENT CHAPTER 1, THEORETICAL BACKGROUND 1.
Definitions of key terms ‘Yo be able to analyze the newness of language use through the three acts of the novel, (here were several key lerms: discourse and discourse analysis, literary slyle and language use, which needed to be deeply understood. So for the purpose of providing a clear and deep understanding, of the matter, this first chapter would focus on the definitions of those key terms while mentioning some necessary information about previous studies that related to the matter of the study. Discourse and discourse analysis ‘Yhrough centuries, ‘discourse’ was defined in various ways by a number of scholars. ‘Discourse’ was ‘stretches of language perceived to be meaningful, unified and purposive’, (Cook 1989:156) “Discourse” was considered 'a communicative event which draws on the meaning potential of the language (and other systems of communication) to carry communicative value {the ilocutionary force) of speech acts through utterances.
In other words, it referred to “the interpretation of communicative events in context.” (Nunan 1993:7-8) It could be said that there were no significant differences between those definitions since the notion of ‘discourse’ was all about how the language usc was understood in such verbal events. Sharing a lot in common with Malinowski, linguists (Hymes, 1960s; Austin, 1962, Searle, 1969, Grice, 1975; and Halliday and Hasan, 1973, 1978, 1989, 1994) had PART 1: INTRODUCTION This initial part stated the problem and the rationale of the study, together with the aims, objectives, the scope af ihe study, und the overview of the rest of this research paper. Above all, it was in this part that the research question was identified to work as clear guidelines for the whole research. Rationale of the study In the eighteenth century, the readers were delighted by a new form of prose, which was called ‘novel’ for the first time by Daniel Defoe — the first considerable British novelist.
A ‘novel’ with a certain length did bring amusement, pleasure and joy to those who were concerned when the contemporary British society was dreadfully chaotic in the virtue of the changes im the monarch. In dhe tmnovation of this new form of prose, there appeared a remarkable number of writers and their works. They were coined to emphasive not only the social changes but also the imaginary stories, which exposed their hope for a better life, so cven the family ar social class problems were best put down in words by ane of the most famous female novelist in Bntain and all over the world — Jane Auster Peter Washington in his commentary once implicd hal Jane Austen belonged to the fantastic side of the Linglish comedy that appealed so strongly to the readers, not only in Britain but also from all over the world. She was also said to be the first novelist capable of “conveying both interior and exterior of haonan life” as well as “developing the means of representing the totality of human life” (Ian Watt, 1957) In the six novels written during the very last decades of the eighteenth century, she tmily succeeded in describing “the involvements and feelings and characters of ordinary life which to me the most wonderful l've ever met with.
thata pity such a gifted creature dies so early” as Walter Soot (1826) once stated in his PART 2; DEVELOPMENT CHAPTER 1, THEORETICAL BACKGROUND 1. Definitions of key terms ‘Yo be able to analyze the newness of language use through the three acts of the novel, (here were several key lerms: discourse and discourse analysis, literary slyle and language use, which needed to be deeply understood. So for the purpose of providing a clear and deep understanding, of the matter, this first chapter would focus on the definitions of those key terms while mentioning some necessary information about previous studies that related to the matter of the study. Discourse and discourse analysis ‘Yhrough centuries, ‘discourse’ was defined in various ways by a number of scholars.
‘Discourse’ was ‘stretches of language perceived to be meaningful, unified and purposive’, (Cook 1989:156) “Discourse” was considered 'a communicative event which draws on the meaning potential of the language (and other systems of communication) to carry communicative value {the ilocutionary force) of speech acts through utterances. In other words, it referred to “the interpretation of communicative events in context.” (Nunan 1993:7-8) It could be said that there were no significant differences between those definitions since the notion of ‘discourse’ was all about how the language usc was understood in such verbal events. Sharing a lot in common with Malinowski, linguists (Hymes, 1960s; Austin, 1962, Searle, 1969, Grice, 1975; and Halliday and Hasan, 1973, 1978, 1989, 1994) had Lnglish Literature realize what made Austen one of the most successful female novelist of the century. Right from the start, the researcher expected to find out the historical and social background of the British Literature and briefly analyze the language use in ‘Pride and Prejudice’ which exposed Austen's distinctive writing style.
Last but not least was the researcher's desire to understand the novel, which was twally related lo the conlzoversial matter of love and love expressing 3, Methodology of procedures 3. Design of the study The study was divided into three main parts. While Part One dealt with the general information which contained the rationale, aims and objectives, methodology and scope of the study, Part Two went into further details of the historical and social background; and the newness of language use in Jane Ansten’s Pride and Prejudice through four chapters. ‘I'he suggestions for further research would not be ommitled.
in the last. Data collection and data analysis The study used the descriptive and contextual methods of data collecting and analyzing. Basing on tho huge resources of library and internet materials, the researcher analyzed and then agglutinated those ideas into her own brief clear and understandable viewpoints. On the other hand, several differences im the changeable literal bends of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries would be briefly stated in her Analysis on how main characters exposed their own ‘pride’ and ‘prejudice’ in some certain circumstances through the three volumes commentary.
All the certain circumstances were just within the leading imvolvement of one family and their neighbours and [nends in which Austen created “some heroines who were credible with minds, with the capacity to think for themselves with ambition and wit”; and “Pride and Prejudice’, the novel about marniage, was said to be the best of them all ‘Pride and Prejudice’ was coined to construct the frame of the conlermporanly social satire, within the relationship between people from the middle and upper classes. It initially commenced the era of ‘couniry family novels’ which set a “prying inguiry into the manner, human dignity and great strain” on the characters and the society they were living in, which made her novels connected to the contemporary world more than the traditional socicly of the cighleenth century as Digp Minh ‘Tam (2002) once commented, Further more, it ranked one of the greatest novels of all time following “Wuthering heights” by Emily Bronte - 1847) and was read even if it was not taught at school. The researcher was impressed by the name of the novel at first and became averexcited about the novel since she finished reading it for the first time. ‘fhe novel was really linked to both of the real warld and the emotional changes inside individuals, especially the female.
Therefore, pulting extra clfort in investigating what impressed her really fed her desire to understand the people and society at the time.
