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.