Thomas Hardy's Under the Greenwood Tree and the Wessex Dialect(1)

publisher奈良The principal aim of this studyis to show the typical aspects of the Dorsetshire Dialect whict Thomas Hardy expressed in his pastral story, Under the Greenwood Tree. Here,if we don't take any considerations of the Dialect which Hardy expressed in his works, we will not be fully able to appreciate his art of literature.In asense, all English literature, since Standard English is simply one dialect that has acquired more importance than the other dialects. The occasional use of dialect into the fictions serves several purposes: it can serve as an element of loca lcolour, it is a way of individualizing characters