Luận văn a study on historical and social background and the newness of language use in ‘pride and prejudice’ by jane austen

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 hist

VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI

HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES

FACULTY OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES

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NGUYEN KIM OANH

A MINOR THESIS ON:

A STUDY ON HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL BACKGROUND AND THE NEWNESS OF LANGUAGE USE IN ‘PRIDE AND PREJUDICH?

VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI

NOT UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STU

FACULTY OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES

NGUYEN KIM OANH

A MINOR THESIS ON:

A STUDY ON HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL BACKGROUND AND THE NEWNESS OF LANGUAGE USE IN ‘PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

3 1 Design of the staily

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

3.1 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 part

3.2 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

2 The matter of love and love expressing

4 Suggestions for further studies

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

3.1 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 part

3.2 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

1.1 Discourse and discourse analysis

‘Yhrough centuries, ‘discourse’ was defined in various ways by a number of

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

1 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 that a 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

1.1 Discourse and discourse analysis

‘Yhrough centuries, ‘discourse’ was defined in various ways by a number of

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

3.1 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 part

3.2 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

2 Aims of the study

This study was carried out with the hope of exploring the background of the temporary Britain leading to the remarkable changes in its literal history of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries especially in the view on British novels

The study also aimed at answering the question: “What is Jane Austen’s

distinctive writing style?” The answer to the question would help the students of

Linguistics, the novel's readers as well as those who wished to specialize in

2

CHAPTER 2 ANALYTICAL BACKGROUND

2.4, Introduction to Jane Austen

2 The matter of love and love expressing

4 Suggestions for further studies

CHAPTER 2 ANALYTICAL BACKGROUND

2.4, Introduction to Jane Austen

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

3.1 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 part

3.2 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 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

1 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 that a pity such

a gifted creature dies so early” as Walter Soot (1826) once stated in his

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

1 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 that a pity such

a gifted creature dies so early” as Walter Soot (1826) once stated in his

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

2 Aims of the study

This study was carried out with the hope of exploring the background of the temporary Britain leading to the remarkable changes in its literal history of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries especially in the view on British novels

The study also aimed at answering the question: “What is Jane Austen’s

distinctive writing style?” The answer to the question would help the students of

Linguistics, the novel's readers as well as those who wished to specialize in

2

CHAPTER 2 ANALYTICAL BACKGROUND

2.4, Introduction to Jane Austen

4, Scope of the study

‘As could be seen from the title, the study strongly focused not only on the historical and social background but also on the language use of the novel which played the most important role

To understand thal newness of language use in the novel, the researcher had lo pay

her full attention to the main characters’ leading conversations in the three

volumes which helped expose the cherish love and the theory of ‘pnde’ and

‘prejudice’ the main themes of the novel Amongst the three conversations, the

first two would be thoroughly analyzed, for the reason that the first ‘conversation’

brought the two main characters by their mistaken first impression and the second

conversation was about the conflicts finally resolved.

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

1 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 that a 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

1.1 Discourse and discourse analysis

‘Yhrough centuries, ‘discourse’ was defined in various ways by a number of

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

1 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 that a pity such

a gifted creature dies so early” as Walter Soot (1826) once stated in his

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

2 Aims of the study

This study was carried out with the hope of exploring the background of the temporary Britain leading to the remarkable changes in its literal history of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries especially in the view on British novels

The study also aimed at answering the question: “What is Jane Austen’s

distinctive writing style?” The answer to the question would help the students of

Linguistics, the novel's readers as well as those who wished to specialize in

2

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

1 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 that a pity such

a gifted creature dies so early” as Walter Soot (1826) once stated in his

4, Scope of the study

‘As could be seen from the title, the study strongly focused not only on the historical and social background but also on the language use of the novel which played the most important role

To understand thal newness of language use in the novel, the researcher had lo pay

her full attention to the main characters’ leading conversations in the three

volumes which helped expose the cherish love and the theory of ‘pnde’ and

‘prejudice’ the main themes of the novel Amongst the three conversations, the

first two would be thoroughly analyzed, for the reason that the first ‘conversation’

brought the two main characters by their mistaken first impression and the second

conversation was about the conflicts finally resolved.

4, Scope of the study

‘As could be seen from the title, the study strongly focused not only on the historical and social background but also on the language use of the novel which played the most important role

To understand thal newness of language use in the novel, the researcher had lo pay

her full attention to the main characters’ leading conversations in the three

volumes which helped expose the cherish love and the theory of ‘pnde’ and

‘prejudice’ the main themes of the novel Amongst the three conversations, the

first two would be thoroughly analyzed, for the reason that the first ‘conversation’

brought the two main characters by their mistaken first impression and the second

conversation was about the conflicts finally resolved.

4, Scope of the study

‘As could be seen from the title, the study strongly focused not only on the historical and social background but also on the language use of the novel which played the most important role

To understand thal newness of language use in the novel, the researcher had lo pay

her full attention to the main characters’ leading conversations in the three

volumes which helped expose the cherish love and the theory of ‘pnde’ and

‘prejudice’ the main themes of the novel Amongst the three conversations, the

first two would be thoroughly analyzed, for the reason that the first ‘conversation’

brought the two main characters by their mistaken first impression and the second

conversation was about the conflicts finally resolved.

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

1.1 Discourse and discourse analysis

‘Yhrough centuries, ‘discourse’ was defined in various ways by a number of

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

CHAPTER 2 ANALYTICAL BACKGROUND

2.4, Introduction to Jane Austen

2 The matter of love and love expressing

4 Suggestions for further studies

4, Scope of the study

‘As could be seen from the title, the study strongly focused not only on the historical and social background but also on the language use of the novel which played the most important role

To understand thal newness of language use in the novel, the researcher had lo pay

her full attention to the main characters’ leading conversations in the three

volumes which helped expose the cherish love and the theory of ‘pnde’ and

‘prejudice’ the main themes of the novel Amongst the three conversations, the

first two would be thoroughly analyzed, for the reason that the first ‘conversation’

brought the two main characters by their mistaken first impression and the second

conversation was about the conflicts finally resolved.

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

2 Aims of the study

This study was carried out with the hope of exploring the background of the temporary Britain leading to the remarkable changes in its literal history of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries especially in the view on British novels

The study also aimed at answering the question: “What is Jane Austen’s

distinctive writing style?” The answer to the question would help the students of

Linguistics, the novel's readers as well as those who wished to specialize in

2

CHAPTER 2 ANALYTICAL BACKGROUND

2.4, Introduction to Jane Austen

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

3.1 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 part

3.2 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, Scope of the study

‘As could be seen from the title, the study strongly focused not only on the historical and social background but also on the language use of the novel which played the most important role

To understand thal newness of language use in the novel, the researcher had lo pay

her full attention to the main characters’ leading conversations in the three

volumes which helped expose the cherish love and the theory of ‘pnde’ and

‘prejudice’ the main themes of the novel Amongst the three conversations, the

first two would be thoroughly analyzed, for the reason that the first ‘conversation’

brought the two main characters by their mistaken first impression and the second

conversation was about the conflicts finally resolved.

4, Scope of the study

‘As could be seen from the title, the study strongly focused not only on the historical and social background but also on the language use of the novel which played the most important role

To understand thal newness of language use in the novel, the researcher had lo pay

her full attention to the main characters’ leading conversations in the three

volumes which helped expose the cherish love and the theory of ‘pnde’ and

‘prejudice’ the main themes of the novel Amongst the three conversations, the

first two would be thoroughly analyzed, for the reason that the first ‘conversation’

brought the two main characters by their mistaken first impression and the second

conversation was about the conflicts finally resolved.