CP – Number 7 (2002)

Issue:

CP, Number 7

Section:

No. 7 (2002)  Editorial

Abstract:

The aspects dealt with in this paper circumscribe the notion of identity: personal identity, attributes of the major characters’ identity in Dickens’s novel Dombey and Son, the identity of the text itself.

Keywords:

social identity, identity of the text, analysis of reality.

Code [ID]:

CP200207V00S01A0001 [0004529]

Issue:

CP, Number 7

Section:

No. 7 (2002)  Editorial

Abstract:

The paper contains a brief survey of some of the concepts and theories associated with the process of interpersonal communication in everyday life. The theoretical presentation of the problems finds support in an analysis of the first chapter of Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens.

Keywords:

interpersonal and impersonal communication, interaction, relationships, codes, face, territory, face threatening act.

Code [ID]:

CP200207V00S01A0002 [0004530]

Issue:

CP, Number 7

Section:

No. 7 (2002)  Editorial

Abstract:

This paper contains an analysis of Charles Dickens’ novel, Dombey and Son, based on John Searle’s The Construction of Social Reality. First of all, we defined the concepts of major importance for this study (institution, institutional facts, rules of constitution, social reality) and then we applied them to the text.

Keywords:

institution, institutional facts, status-functions, rules of constitution, communication, evolution.

Code [ID]:

CP200207V00S01A0003 [0004531]

Issue:

CP, Number 7

Section:

No. 7 (2002)  Editorial

Abstract:

This paper is an attempt to show the way in which Dickensian women are depicted visually in the 19th century. The two illustrations which we are going to refer to disclose a break of male dominance. The two female characters are seen as visual centres which develop relations of contrariety and contradiction with the other personages.

Keywords:

illustrations as syntagms, the visual semiotics of clothes, figurative dimension, visual dimension, centre(s), semiotic square.

Code [ID]:

CP200207V00S01A0004 [0004532]

Issue:

CP, Number 7

Section:

No. 7 (2002)  Editorial

Abstract:

The paper is an attempt to trace the relationship between the language of a text and the age it belongs to. The analysis of the paradigms characteristic of both the Victorian and Dickensian world – time, change, progress, position, unnaturalness and habit -, of the male selves and of some of the symbols in the novel are meant to show the relation of subjectivity, consciousness and communication to the ideology of the age, contained within the frame of -ism/ Dombeyism.

Keywords:

(Dickemsian /Victorian) realities, position, role, (whatness of) self, House, Dombey-sign.

Code [ID]:

CP200207V00S01A0005 [0004533]

Issue:

CP, Number 7

Section:

No. 7 (2002)  Editorial

Abstract:

The linguistic conceptual frame of the naming process is sustained by specifications referring to the relation between “names” and “appellatives”. The first part of our paper outlines this conceptual body with a view to applying it to Dickens’s novel Dombey and Son. It focuses on personal names considered under different aspects (etymological, lexical, grammatical, stylistic, pragmatic), but there is also reference to other names (place names, names of institutions, of animals etc.) and to their functions. The last part is meant to reflect the way in which subjectivity and objectivity are implied in the naming process.

Keywords:

the naming process, names and appellatives, common and proper nouns, personal names, terms of address.

Code [ID]:

CP200207V00S01A0006 [0004534]

Issue:

CP, Number 7

Section:

No. 7 (2002)  Editorial

Abstract:

This paper lays an emphasis on the role played by logical connectors in coordinating sentences in Charles Dickens’s novel, Dombey and Son.

Keywords:

logical connectors, asyndetic coordination, syndetic coordination, pseudo-coordination, stylistic expressiveness.

Code [ID]:

CP200207V00S01A0007 [0004535]

Issue:

CP, Number 7

Section:

No. 7 (2002)  Editorial

Abstract:

The paper tries to investigate some of Charles Dickens’s narratological choices in Dombey and Son, some of the pragmatic features which contextualize this text in the cultural framework of a narrative act. Starting from a number of theoretical considerations which are commonly labelled as narratological, the analytical effort concentrates on the particular relationships within the text and the way they are supported by linguistic matter.

Keywords:

narrative, overt/covert narrator, omniscience, character, emotional management.

Code [ID]:

CP200207V00S01A0008 [0004536]

Issue:

CP, Number 7

Section:

No. 7 (2002)  Editorial

Abstract:

Since, technically speaking, a drawing is, by definition, meant as connotation and the illustrator (insisted on in this paper) is, with very few exceptions, as faithful to the textual message as needed, it seems interesting to understand which modes of expression the artist chooses in order to render the message, why he prefers a particular line or shape, how he combines them, why he organizes his compositions the way he does. Image and text coexist, interrelate and complete each other, both semantically and aesthetically.

Keywords:

pictorial text, “pluricode” discourse, linear reading, global reading, modes of expression, plastic language, syntax.

Code [ID]:

CP200207V00S01A0009 [0004537]