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BA Dissertation Environment Bedding and Metonymy in Dickens’s Great Expectations BA Candidate Cao Danwei Supervisor Hu Yuming West Anhui University May, 2013Acknowledgements Here I avail myself of this opportunity to express my heartfelt gratitude to all those who have helped me in the course of writing this paper. Firstly, I would like to thank my dear supervisor, Mr. Hu Yuming, for his constant encouragement and guidance. He has walked me through all the stages of the writing of this dissertation. He has offered me valuable ideas, suggestions and criticism with the profound knowledge in his research experience. Without his consistent and illuminating instruction, this dissertation would never come to its present form. Secondly, I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to all the teachers who educated and cultivated me to be a qualified teacher in the future in the past two years. Finally, my thanks would go to my beloved family for their loving considerations and great confidence in me all through these years. I also owe my sincere gratitude to my friends and my fellow classmates who gave me their help and time in listening to me and helping me work out my problems during the difficult course of the thesis. Abstract Charles Dickens (1812 -1870)，generally regarded as the greatest literary author of his time in Victorian England, enjoyed a wider popularity than any other previous authors had done during his whole lifetime. Dickens’s later work Great Expectations (1861), which was considered as his artistic masterpiece, was the most perfectly constructed of all Dickens’s novels. This thesis carefully analyzed the relationship between metonymy and the environment bedding in Dickens’s Great Expectations to achieve a better understanding of this novel. This thesis was componented of four chapters. Chapter one was a brief introduction to this thesis, the life and career of Charles Dickens. Chapter Two discussed the figure of environment bedding in Great Expectati