The Functionality of Clause Complexing in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to carry a statistical analysis of the processes of clause complexing in selected lengthy extracts from James Joyce's novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) to show that the development of Stephen's language is directly related to the growth and maturation of his metal capabilities. The paper shall adopt Halliday's functional approach to clause complexing in the analysis of Stephen's language over the five chapters of the novel.