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Dialect and dichotomy : literary representations of African American speech /

"Dialect and Dichotomy introduces and critiques canonical works in literary dialect analysis and covers recent, innovative applications of linguistic analysis to representations of African American dialect in American literature. It also proposes theoretical principles and specific methods that...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Minnick, Lisa Cohen
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2004.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A Brief History of American literary dialect
  • Linguists, literary critics, and literary dialect
  • Methodology
  • Articulating Jim: language and characterization in Huckleberry Finn
  • "A high, holy purpose": dialect in Charles W. Chesnutt's conjure tales
  • Representations of speech and attitudes about race in the sound and the fury
  • Community in conflict: saying and doing in their eyes were watching god.