Dialect and dichotomy

Description:

"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 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 - Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Charles W. Chestnutt's The Conjure Woman, William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, and Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: African American authors,  African Americans,  African Americans in literature,  American Dialect literature,  American literature,  Americanisms in literature,  Black English in literature,  Dialects,  English language,  History and criticism,  Intellectual life,  Languages,  Speech in literature,  Spoken English,  White authors,  American literature, african american authors, history and criticism,  American literature, history and criticism, 20th century,  English language, spoken english,  English language, dialects, united states,  African americans, languages,  Language

Places: Southern States,  United States

Times: 20th century