摘 要

   《呼啸山庄》是英国著名女作家艾米丽勃朗特唯一的一部小说，而正是这部小说奠定了她在英国文学史上的地位。小说通过一个爱情悲剧，向人们展示了一幅畸形社会的生活画面，勾勒了被这个畸形社会扭曲了的人性及其造成的种种可怖的事件，作者通过对人性的探索从而反映当时的社会。小说从宏观上通过双重叙述深化了小说的主题，而微观上前景化语言的使用更加突出表现了小说的主题。前景化是文学语言的一个重要特点，作为文体学中的一个重要概念,前景化在文体分析中起着重要作用。作者在进行创作时，将有些语言成分加以前景化是有目的的行为，系统而连贯的前景化特征可以为读者理解小说作品指明方向，因此前景化对于小说分析具有重要的价值。本文以“前景化”理论为基础,详细地分析《呼啸山庄》这篇小说中的前景化语言特征,并在此基础上充分挖掘作者的语用意图，加深对小说主旨及主要人物形象的理解。

关键词：前景化；呼啸山庄；主要人物；主题

Abstract

Wuthering Heights is the only novel of Emily Bronte, the famous British writer in the 19th century. It was this book that established her position in the British history of literature. Through a tragedy of a love story, the novel showed us a picture of the distorted social life and the distorted humanity caused by the society and a series of sad stories. The writer reflected what the society was like at that time by the exploration of humanity. The subject was strengthened by the interplay of two narrators in the macro aspect and by the use of foregrounding language in the micro aspect. Foregrounding language is an important feature of literature language, and as an important concept in stylistics, foregrounding language played an important part in the analysis of literature. During the creation of works, the writer fore grounded some language intentionally. Systematic and coherent fore grounded language helps readers understand the subject of the novel. This essay, based on the foregrounding theory, tries to analyze the foregrounding language of Wuthering Heights and strengthen the understanding of the subject and the main characters.

Keywords: foregrounding language; Wuthering Heights; main characters; theme

Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 A Brief Introduction of Emily Bronte
Emily Bronte was an English novelist and poet, now best remembered for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, which is a classic of English literature. Emily was the second eldest of the three surviving Bronte sisters, between Charlotte and Anne. Born in a poor family, Emily once went to a boarding school with her sisters and when she grew up, she tried to found a school but failed. Because of her poor family and living experiences, she formed the characters of introversion and quietness, which, to some extent, can be reflected by her works. Since she was young, she has had a deep interest in writing. Besides of the novel, Wuthering Heights, she had written many poems. She was regarded as one of the most talented female writers in the history of English literature.