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Applies linguistics methods for a richer understanding of literary texts and spoken language. Dialect and Dichotomyoutlines the history of dialect writing in English and its influence on linguistic variation. It also surveys American dialect writing and its relationship to literary, linguistic, political, and cultural trends, with emphasis on African American voices in literature.Furthermore, this book introduces and critiques canonical works in literary dialect analysis and covers recent, innovative applications of linguistic analysis of literature. Next, it proposes theoretical principles and specific methods that can be implemented in order to analyze literary dialect for either linguistic or literary purposes, or both. Finally, the proposed methods are applied in four original analyses of African American speech as represented in major works of fiction of the American South鈥擬ark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Charles W. Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman, William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, and Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God.Dialect and Dichotomyis designed to be accessible to audiences with a variety of linguistic and literary backgrounds. It is an ideal research resource and course text for students and scholars interested in areas including American, African American, and southern literature and culture; linguistic applications to literature; language in the African American community; ethnicity and representation; literary dialect analysis and/or computational linguistics; dialect writing as genre; and American English.
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Dialect and Dichotomyoutlines the history of dialect writing in English and its influence on linguistic variation. It also surveys American dialect writing and its relationship to literary, linguistic, political, and cultural trends, with emphasis on African American voices in literature.
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<h2>Contents</h2>
Tables 000
Acknowledgments 000
Introduction 000
1. A Brief History of American Literary Dialect 000
2. Linguists, Literary Critics, and Literary Dialect 000
3. Methodology 000
4. Articulating Jim: Language and Characterization in Huckleberry
Finn 000
5. "A High, Holy Purpose": Dialect in Charles W. Chesnutt's
Conjure Tales 000
6. Representations of Speech and Attitudes about Race in The
Sound and the Fury 000
7. Community in Conflict: Saying and Doing in Their Eyes Were
Watching God 000
8. Conclusions 000
Appendix A: Phonological Data for Jim in Huckleberry Finn 000
Appendix B: Speaker Data from The Sound and the Fury 000
Appendix C: Speaker Data from Their Eyes Were Watching God 000
Notes 000
Works Cited 000
Index 000
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: American literature African American authors History and criticism, American literature Southern States History and criticism, American literature White authors History and criticism, American literature 20th century History and criticism, Dialect literature, American History and criticism, English language Spoken English United States, English language Dialects United States, African Americans in literature, African Americans Language, Black English in literature, Americanisms in literature, Speech in literature
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