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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelStyle of James Joyce though he is a well-known male
novelist in English literature. Yet, some critics on
Joyce discuss about his spirit of femininity in creating
his works. Sociolinguistically, one's verbal behavior is
sufficiently influenced by one?s manner of thinking.
Thus, this study is trying to find out whether Joyce's
spirit of femininity is also reflected i n his language
style in his novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young
Man based on the speech of his major male characters,
Stephen, Simon and Cranly.
Elaine Chaika asserts that one's selection of linguistic
forms is used to reveal one's personal identity.
Eventually, a range of women language features derived by
Robin Lakoff is used to determine the dominant language
style of Joyce including compound request, feminine
topic, self-disclosure, parataxis, i.talication, period,
compliant, exclaimation, interrogation, intensifier,
gesture, hedge, repetition,reduplication.polite marker,
hypercorrection, feminine pronoun,back-channel noise,
adjective, euphemism, circumlocution,direct quotation,
jargon and directive.
Using a qualitative analysis, all the speech from
three characters is collected, put separately and categorized
into feminine or non-feminine based on the
criteria above. Also,the frequency of each device is
counted. The dominant language style is done by drawing
the percentage of feminine and non-feminine utterance of
each character.
In analysis, some data are presented as proofs to
indicate the language patterns of each characters as well
as to show which character uses the most dominant feminine
pattern and which device is used dominantly. At
last, a brief summary of the analysis of the speech of
the three characters is given.
From the analysis, it is proved that Joyce's language
style indeed involves the patterns of woman language.
He uses the dominant quantity of all woman language
devices above with the exception of the use of
specialized color term device. Stephen is the character
that uses the highest frequency of feminine devices as
well as the one who uses the majority device which appears
in Joyce's language, namely the repetition. From
the relatively great percentage of feminine utterances
which appear from chapter I to V, it can be concluded
that Joyce uses feminine language style.