James Joyce and the Difference of Language: Language, sexuality and the remainder in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

摘要: A few pages into Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man , young Stephen Dedalus – not yet seven years old, if we can extrapolate from Joyce's own life gives grave consideration to word he has just heard mouth one his schoolfellows: Suck was queer word. The fellow called Simon Moonan that name because used tie prefect's false sleeves behind back and prefect let on be angry. But sound ugly. Once had washed hands in lavatory Wicklow Hotel father pulled stopper up by chain after dirty water went down through hole basin. And when it all gone slowly basin made like that: suck. Only louder. (1.150) From point view modern linguistics, Stephen's theorizing is obviously false: ugliness does inhere sounds language, although culture imbue certain with negative associations, none three common phonemes ‘suck’ so affected. (Compare same words ‘luck’, ‘sup’, ‘musk’, ‘success’.) Nor would going drain sound, objective, measurable terms, uttered any normal human voice or accent.