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Proust and Speech ...
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Abstract:
This dissertation examines how Marcel Proust presents and uses different speech styles in A la recherche du temps perdu. The narrator of the novel analyzes how almost everyone he encounters speaks and consistently bases his decisions about how to interact with others on his evaluation of their speech mannerisms. I argue that, through the narrator’s observations, Proust emphasizes the role of the socioindexicality of speech, or how the way a person speaks communicates their social identity, in mediating social relations. I begin by presenting the narrator’s comments on how social status is interpreted through the way that people speak. Then I turn in the second chapter to how the narrator’s understanding of what factors determine a person’s speech mannerisms changes over the course of his life. The third chapter argues that the narrator has a sustained interest in how people use speech to perform different identities and shows how his investigation into the reasons these performances succeed or fail informs ...
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Keyword:
French literature; Identity Psychology--Social aspects; Jews in literature; Sexual minorities in literature; Sociolinguistics; Speech
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URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-84q4-ez07
https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/d8-84q4-ez07
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