Grammatical and phonological deviations in Dickens "Oliver Twist"

Abstract EN

Speakers of a language recognize, the sounds system, words, and possible sentences and know how the words and morphemes in grammatical sentences must be arranged (Fromkin, 1988 :13) .

But in a case of literary work, the writer uses a language that The aims of study to analyze the types of the linguistic deviations in Dickens' novels.

Moreover, it determines the reasons behind these deviations.

Also this study aims at supporting some critical points of view concerning Dickens' philosophy and style.

According to the hypothesis, the researcher has come up with the findings arrived as a result of the stylistic analysis carried out in this research .

In other words, Dickens' has a unique way of writing that deviates from the literary norms violates the rules of grammar.

This kind of language is technically called linguistic deviation, by which the writer can create a language deviated from the norms of literary convention or everyday speech(Leech, 1969:57).

Deviation which a linguistic phenomenon, has an important psychological effect on the reader on the readers(and hearers), if a part of a poem deviant it becomes especially, noticeable, or perceptually prominent (Short, 1969 :11).

Dickens' language of fiction is not exception.

He has his own method of writing novels and especial peculiarities in his own way.

So, this study is concerned with Dickens' unique way of handling fictional language, in one of his novels, in relation to the grammatical and phonological deviations from settled norms in English.

It endeavours to show how Dickens' manipulates language and the effects achieved through this manipulation .

The research problem is related to what extend Dickens' uses of language deviates from the linguistic norm.

What are the levels of linguistic deviations in Dickens' style?