Date:  Tue, 7 Oct 1997 21:35:19 -0500
From:  Cynthia Bernstein <bernscy[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MAIL.AUBURN.EDU>
Subject: Re: dialect in literature

Along these lines, see Katherine Wyly Mille's essay, "Ambrose Gonzales's
Gullah: What It May Tell Us about Variation" in _Language Variety in the
South Revisited_, just out from The Univ of Alabama Press. Marianne
Cooley also has a relevant essay in this volume on the representation of
African-American English in _The Padlock_, a play produced in the 1760s in
London and New York.

Cynthia Bernstein

On Tue, 7 Oct 1997, Chris Corcoran wrote:

> 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
>
> Kapu Sehns Noh Kapu Wohd
> "Focus on the meaning, not the words"
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