The language and consciouness in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Abstract

This essay examines the ways in which contemporary spiritual heritage and social relations of the American dialects are embedded in a concrete vernacular in The Adventures Huckleberry Finn. In the novel, Huck’s tongue, adopted as the standard language of tongues, symbolizes his different consciousness from the other characters, which represents the complex situation of the United States at that time. While the various dialects used by the characters are subject to strong social binding power, Twain attempts to make its change by contacting each dialect with other one and forming a relationship between them. Their language weakens socially centripetal power by communicating each other, and it comes to have various polyphony and heteroglossia voices that hear and understand the voice of the others. The diversity and heterogeneity of his own language, which stemmed from his artistic sensibility, were a special appeal to his contemporary American universal thinking because in particular the colorful dialects reveal the distinctive personality of the characters. What the author wants to show us is a harmonious world.