Syntactic Deviation in Eugene O'Neill's play Long Day's Journey into Night

الملخص

The present study tries to demonstrate the grammatical and phonological deviations in Eugene O\'Neill\'s play Long Day\'s Journey into Night that help to classify O\'Neill\'s play as a masterpiece in the field of literature. It explores the reasons for these deviations and how this reflects O\'Neill\'s style and philosophy in showing class distinction in his play. To this end, this study will apply two kinds of these deviations according to the theoretical framework proposed by Leech. This research will illustrate the different kinds of linguistic deviation. The previous researches and investigator on linguistic deviations particularly grammatical and phonological deviations concentrated on dramatic texts and discourses. Long Day\'s Journey into Night is the play that consists of the number of various kinds of linguistic deviations. This research tries to illustrate two kinds of linguistic deviations which are the grammatical and phonological deviations. By applying Leech\'s model of linguistic deviations in 1969, these deviations have been integrated within the play. The study is important for giving us the linguistic analysis of the play from a point of the stylistic view.