寻觅语言家园——论《尤利西斯》里的爱尔兰英语

Seeking the Spiritual Homeland of Language:Hiberno-English in Ulysses

从一次令人匪夷所思的庭审着手,结合爱尔兰英语发展的历史语境和文本语料,本文对《尤利西斯》里频繁使用的爱尔兰英语语料进行文学文体学阐释,探讨在英国殖民统治时期爱尔兰语的生存危机以及它与民族身份认同之间的重要关系。从历史的维度看,爱尔兰英语是统治者和被统治者两种不同意识形态之间长期博弈的产物,体现着二者特定的权力意向和权力关系;从文本的角度看,爱尔兰英语对争取民族独立、维护民族话语权及民族身份认同都起到了至关重要的作用,是乔伊斯和他的同胞赖以生存的精神家园。

To begin with a queer trial of a murder case, and viewed both from the historical context and the novel, the paper has made a relatively comprehensive stylistic interpretation of some specific linguistic data concerning Hiberno-English in Ulysses, and explored the endangered state of Hiberno-English during the colonial period and its close tie with the racial identity. Historically, Hiberno-English comes as a result of the incessant struggle of two opposing ideologies of the oppressor and the oppressed, revealing a particular relationship between discourse and power; textually, Hiberno-English plays an important role in helping the Irish people gaining their national independence, maintaining the national power of discourse and identifying their racial identity, and it turns out to be the spiritual homeland of Joyce and his hometown fellows.