PEOPLE’S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF ALGERIA MINISTRY OF HIGHER EDUCATION AND SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ABOUBAKR BELKAID UNIVERSITY-TLEMCEN FACULTY OF LETTERS AND LANGUAGES DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH Thesis Submitted to the Department of English in Candidacy for the “Doctorate” Degree in Literature Presented by: Supervised by: Mrs. Fatiha BELMERABET Prof. Ilhem MORTAD-SERIR Board of Examiners: Prof. Ghouti HADJOUI President (University of Tlemcen) Prof. Ilhem MORTAD-SERIR Supervisor (University of Tlemcen) Dr. Noureddine MOUHADJER Internal Examiner (University of Tlemcen) Dr. Mohammad DIB External Examiner (University of Mascara) Dr. Zohra LABED External Examiner (Ecole Normale Supérieure of Oran) Dr. Nidhal CHAMI External Examiner (University of Oran) Academic Year: 2017/2018 Towards a New Representational Linguistic Paradigm: Literary Dialect in Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights and Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God