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- PAGE . z - . - .可修编- BA Dissertation Environment Bedding andMetonymy inDickens’s Great E*pectations BA Candidate Cao Danwei Supervisor Hu Yuming West Anhui University May, 2013 - . z Acknowledgements Here I avail myself of this opportunity to e*press 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 e*perience. Without his consistent and illuminating instruction, this dissertation would never come to its present form. Secondly, I would like to e*press my heartfelt gratitudetoall the teachers who educated and cultivated me to be a qualified teacher in the futurein 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 doneduring his whole lifetime.Dickens’s later work Great E*pectations (1861), which was considered as hisartistic masterpiece, was the most perfectly constructed of all Dickens’s novels. This thesis carefully analyzed the relationship betweenmetonymyand the environment bed