TY - BOOK AU - Youmna Samy Fahmy Abdelwahab AU - Samia Serag Eldin , TI - A study of verbal and nonverbal language in hard times in assessment of dickensian characterization / PY - 2012/// CY - Cairo : PB - Youmna Samy Fahmy Abdelwahab , KW - Charles Dickens KW - Fictional character KW - Utiltarianism N1 - Thesis (M.A.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Arts - Department of English; Issued also as CD N2 - Dickensian Portrayal of character in hard times has broached divergent riticism . Some critics admired it while others regarded it an utter failure . An eclectic approach drawing on critical discourse analysis conversation analysis stylistics and some nonverbal concepts is employed to reach an objective assessment of character in the novel UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -