A Study On The Types Of "Others Words" In Faulkner’s Novels

Faulkner is one of most important writers in the20th century. His works often containunique narrative skills and profound cultural connotation. Since childhood, Faulkner wasaffected by Christian culture. In his creation, he regards the “Bible” as his creation “tool”. Inalmost each of his works, we can see the shadows of the “Bible”. So if we only study thenarrative techniques of Faulkner’s woks can’t understand the profound connotation.According to Bakhtin’s Others Words theory, the paper trys to summarize the classification ofothers words from the novel’s language. And the paper will analyze the narrative function ofothers words, interpret the cultural connotation of the novels and reveal the aesthetic valueand social value of Faulkner’s novels.The first chapter will introduce and further explain the Bakhtin’s Others Words theory.From Bakhtin’s theory, others words will be done certain defined, and the previous researchrelated to the question will be listed. The second chapter will classify the others words in thetext and others words will be divided into four categories: plot, character, image and discoursecategory. And typical examples will be listed in each category. Based on the classification inlast chapter, the third chapter will analyze the others words’ narrative functions, which can beroughly divided into four functions: mimetic function, meta-narrative function, dialogicfunction and cultural expansion function. Based on the above research, others words not onlyhas the unique narrative function but also develop the novels’ cultural significance. Otherswords in the text not only add the novels’ cultural connotation, but also create a new situationto read and explain the modern novels.