高级英语小说课文分析

The Image Analysis—Personal Features (Para. 60-98) Words

Dialogues

Psycho-narrations

Actions

WORDS

1, Polly's words during the first date (Para.60 ):

"Gee, that was a delish(delicious) dinner"

"Gee, that was a marvy(marvlous) movie"

"Gee, I had a sensaysh(sensational: A sensational result, event, or situation is so remarkable that it causes great excitement and interest. Collins) time"

2, Polly's words during the second date to the Knoll being taught logic by Dobie (Para.62-Para.96) :

"Oo, terrif" (Para.62)

She thought this over for a minute and decided she liked it."Maginif." (Para.66) "Wow-dow!" she cried, clapping her hands delightedly. (Para.68)

"I agree," said Polly earnestly. "I mean exercise is wonderful. I mean it builds the body and everything." (Para.72)

"No," she confessed. "But this is marvy. Do more! Do more!"(Para.74) "Really?" said Polly, amazed. "Nobody?" (Para.76)

"Know any more fallacies?" she asked breathlessly. "This is more fun than dancing even." (Para.78)

"I know somebody just like that," she exclaimed. "A girl back home—Eula Becker, her name is. It never fails. Every single time we take her on a picnic—" (Para.81)

"I'll never do it again," she promised contritely. "Are you mad at me?" (Para.83) "Yeah," she said thoughtfully. "Well, then I guess He can’t make the stone." (Para.91) She scratched her pretty, empty head. "I'm all confused," she admitted. (Para.93) "Tell me more of this keen stuff," she said eagerly. (Para.95)

In conclusion: A lot of exclamatory words am employed to show that the girl is simple—minded

and stupid．These words include “Gee”(para．60)，“O o”(para．63)，“Wow—dow”(68)and many others.

Exclamatory from Wikipedia

An exclamative or exclamatory sentence is released because of, and expresses strong emotion. They many times feel like involuntary reactions to a situation, yet they can technically be stifled if need be. And while exclamatives most usually manifest themselves as one or two word interjections, they can also come as major sentences. They are essentially unfiltered vocalizations of our feelings, and a form of self-talk because they are directed either at the speaker themself or at nobody in particular. In punctuation, an exclamative is ended with an exclamation mark.

The use of clipped vulgar forms are chosen to create the image of the simple—mindedness an d stupidity of the girl．Such forms as“delish”(para．60)，“marvy”(para．60)，“sensaysh”(para．63)，“terrif”(para．63)，and“magnif”(para．66)can be detected in the text．

P.S.: In linguistics, clipping is the word formation process which consists in the reduction of a word to one of its parts (Marchand: 1969). Clipping is also known as "truncation" or "shortening."

According to Marchand (1969), clippings are not coined as words belonging to the standard vocabulary of a language. They originate as terms of a special group like schools, army, police, the medical profession, etc., in the intimacy of a milieu where a hint is sufficient to indicate the whole. For example, exam(ination), math(ematics), and lab(oratory) originated in school slang; spec(ulation) and tick(et = credit) in stock-exchange slang; and vet(eran) and cap(tain) in army slang. While clipping terms of some influential groups can pass into common usage, becoming part of Standard English, clippings of a socially unimportant class or group will remain group slang.

Psycho-narrations

I went back to my room with a heavy heart. I had gravely underestimated the size of my task. This girl’s lack of information was terrifying. Nor would it be enough merely to supply her with information. First she had to be taught t o think. This loomed as a project of no small dimensions, and at first I was t empted to give her back to Petey. But then I got to thinking about her abund ant physical charms and about the way she entered a room and the way she h andled a knife and fork, and I decided to make an effort. (Para.61)

I went about it, as in all things, systematically. I gave her a course in logic. It happened that I, as a law student, was taking a course in logic myself, so I had all the facts at my fingertips. (Para.62)

I fought off a wave of despair. I was getting nowhere with this girl, absolutely nowhere. Still, I am nothing if not persistent. (Para.79)

...glumly to my dorm. Petey lay snoring in his bed, the raccoon coat huddled like a great hairy beast at his feet. For a moment I considered waking him an