Disjuncts in Jane Eyre

A new paper on Jane Eyre:

The Use of Disjunct in Charlotte Brontë’s Novel 'Jane Eyre'

Asmaa Amjad A-Khafaji
Journal Human Sciences, p691 2024

Disjuncts are a type of adverbial adjunct that are thought to be more superior to and detached from sentence elements. They express information that is thought to be the speaker's or writer's attitude towards, or a descriptive statement of, the propositional content of the sentence, "expressing, for example, the speaker's degree of truthfulness or his manner of speaking," but is not thought to be necessary to the sentence in which it appears. This study's main focus is on the disjunct use in Jane Eyre, a work written by Charlotte Brontë. The reader will learn about the types and structures of disjuncts, which are versatile discourse devices, from this book, which makes it important. There are two components to this study. The theoretical portion is in part one, while the practical part is in part two. The study attempts to fulfill the following aims, investigate a theoretical background about disjuncts as well as identify the types of disjuncts used in Charlotte Brontë’s Novel Jane Eyre. It is expected that the research is of great value for researchers, English students, linguists and textbook designers. The results of this paper indicate that there are both content disjuncts and style disjuncts are used in Charlotte Brontë’s Novel Jane Eyre.