A Stylistic Analysis of the Thieves' Language in Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens is the most outstanding realistic novelists in Victorian Age,and Oliver Twist is one of his representative works.Except Oliver,the hero,the group of thieves appears most frequently through the whole novel and plays an important role not only in effecting Oliver's life experience,but also in showing the reality in the prevailing social.Dickens' successful shaping of the images of the group of thieve relies on their language.This thesis aims to analyze the thieves' language from the stylistics aspect.