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1、A Study of Language Features in the Adventures of Tom Sawyer【Abstract】TheAdventuresofTomSawyerisoneofMarkTwainsmostfamousnovels.ItisalsoanexcellentchildrensliteraturethatreflectstheAmericanchildrenspursuitoffreedom，boldandlivelyyearningforfantasylife.Thisnovelhasbecomeoneofthemostpopularbooksofchild
2、rensliteratureallovertheworld.Themostimportantisitslivelyandpositivelanguagefeatures，whicharefullofchildrenshumor.ThispapertriestoexplorethelanguagecharacteristicsintheAdventuresofTomSawyer.【Keywords】Languagestyle;MarkTwain;TomSawyer【作者簡介】魏峥筝，衡水市冀州区信都学校。I.TheWholeContentofthisNovelTheAdventuresofTom
3、Sawyerrevealstheradianceofcriticalrealismeverywher.Itisnotonlyanovel，butalsoasuccessfullyricprose.Inaddition，thelanguageofthenovelisconciseandveryconciseindetail.Thenaturalcombinationofpsychologicaldescriptionandscenedescriptionisalsothemovingpartofthenovel.II.TheLanguageFeatures2.1Senseofhumorandir
4、onyMarkTwain，asaliterarymagnate，hadthreemaincharacteristicsinhisworks.Languagestyleisoneofthem，andlookingatMarkTwainswork，wecaneasilyseethatthelanguageofhisworksisalwayssatiricalinhumor，andinhumorsatireaboutlifestyle，politicalsystem，Socialrealityandotherin-depththinkingandruthlessdisclosure.Firstofa
5、ll，theuseofrhetoric：“theAdventuresofTomSawyertheformationofhumoroussatiricallanguagestylecannotbeseparatedfromtheuseofrhetoric.MarkTwainusedalargenumberofrhetoricaldevicesinthenovel，includingexaggeration，contrast，irony，pun，metaphor，etc.Ontheonehand，theuseofrhetoricaldevicesstrengthenedthehumorousiro
6、nyoflanguage.Ontheotherhand，itcanalsohighlighttheideologicalconnotationoftheworksTheauthorexaggeratesthewaypeoplegotochurchtopray，aswellasthechaplain.Thenovelreads：“Andnowtheministerprayed.Agoodgenerousprayeritwasandwentintodetails.Thepastorendedhisprayerafteraseriesofnames，institutionsandevents，and
7、thelengthoftheprayertimeandthecomplexityofthecontentsrevealedthehypocrisyandabsurdityofprayeritself，adescriptionthatwefindridiculousatthesametime.2.2DescriptionoflocalsceneryIntheaspectoflanguageuse，MarkTwainsuseofnativelanguageisalsoadistinctivefeatureofhislanguagestyle.Inessence，thelanguagestylewi
8、thnativecolormainlyreferstoMarkTwainsuseofvocabulary，whichformsthebasisoflanguageandisalsoanessentialelementoflanguagestyle.Firstofall，thepremiseoftheuseofthelocalcolorlanguage：lookingattheAdventuresofTomSawyer，wefindthattherearealotofnativecolorlanguagesinit.Theuseoflocalcolorlanguagenotonlyappeare
9、dinthiswork，butalsoappearedinalargenumberofotherworksofMarkTwain，MarkTwainlanguagestylewasnotformedovernight，thereareitsprofoundreasons.Theauthorthinksthatthisisrelatedtotheauthorsownexperienceandliterarytradition.ThenovelisbasedontheMississippiRiver，wherthewriterworkedasasailorwhenhewasyoung.Hemetw
10、ithlocalfishermen，miners，loggers，andsoon，sohewasveryfamiliarwiththelocallanguageformsandcharacteristics.Thislanguagewithastronglocalcoloranditshumorousironyofthelanguagehassomethingincommon.MarkTwainsuseoflocalcolorlanguagecanbesaidtobeasubversionofAmericantraditionalliterature.III.ConclusionTomSawy
11、ersAdventurecombinesthenaturalsceneryandfolklifealongtheMississippiRiverintheUnitedStates.Usingthesimpleandrichhumorouslanguagemechanism，theauthordepictsabeautifulandvirginitylifepictureofAmericanchildrenandtheirrealdesireandstateofmindforthereaders.References：【1】WayneFields.WhentheFencesAreDown;Lan
12、guageandOrderin“TheAdventuresofTomSawyerand“HuckleberryFinnJ.JournalofAmerica，1990.【2】XinTian.SimpleLanguage，ProfoundSignificanceComparisonBetweenTheAdventuresofTomSawyerandTheAdventuresofHuckleberryFinnJ.AmericanandChineseforeignlanguages，2020.【3】BrianCollins.CriticalEssaysonTheAdventuresofTomSawyered.byGaryScharnhorstreviewJ.WesternAmericanJournal，1994.
