Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 20:53:18 -0500

From: Chris Corcoran cmcorcor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU

Subject: Re: dialect in literature



You also might want to check out Ambrose Gonzales' introduction to the

Black Border 1922. I guess you could say all of what Gonzales writes is

dialect so he isn't exactly an example of dialect in literature but

literary dialect, or something like that. Anyway, in his introduction he

evaluates a number of 19th and early 20th century examples of both writers

who wrote stories entirely in dialect as well as writers who use dialects

in their stories. Of course, Gonzales says some crazy things, but it might

be interesting to see who he chose to evaluate.



Chris Corcoran





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Christine Corcoran

Linguistics

Univ of Chicago



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