Author: Mary Shapiro
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501348493
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
Mary Shapiro explores the use of regional and ethnic dialects in the works of David Foster Wallace, not just as a device used to add realism to dialogue, but as a vehicle for important social commentary about the role language plays in our daily lives, how we express personal identity, and how we navigate social relationships. Wallace's Dialects straddles the fields of linguistic criticism and folk linguistics, considering which linguistic variables of Jewish-American English, African-American English, Midwestern, Southern, and Boston regional dialects were salient enough for Wallace to represent, and how he showed the intersectionality of these with gender and social class. Wallace's own use of language is examined with respect to how it encodes his identity as a white, male, economically privileged Midwesterner, while also foregrounding characteristic and distinctive idiolect features that allowed him to connect to readers across implied social boundaries.
Wallace’s Dialects
Author: Mary Shapiro
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501348493
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
Mary Shapiro explores the use of regional and ethnic dialects in the works of David Foster Wallace, not just as a device used to add realism to dialogue, but as a vehicle for important social commentary about the role language plays in our daily lives, how we express personal identity, and how we navigate social relationships. Wallace's Dialects straddles the fields of linguistic criticism and folk linguistics, considering which linguistic variables of Jewish-American English, African-American English, Midwestern, Southern, and Boston regional dialects were salient enough for Wallace to represent, and how he showed the intersectionality of these with gender and social class. Wallace's own use of language is examined with respect to how it encodes his identity as a white, male, economically privileged Midwesterner, while also foregrounding characteristic and distinctive idiolect features that allowed him to connect to readers across implied social boundaries.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501348493
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
Mary Shapiro explores the use of regional and ethnic dialects in the works of David Foster Wallace, not just as a device used to add realism to dialogue, but as a vehicle for important social commentary about the role language plays in our daily lives, how we express personal identity, and how we navigate social relationships. Wallace's Dialects straddles the fields of linguistic criticism and folk linguistics, considering which linguistic variables of Jewish-American English, African-American English, Midwestern, Southern, and Boston regional dialects were salient enough for Wallace to represent, and how he showed the intersectionality of these with gender and social class. Wallace's own use of language is examined with respect to how it encodes his identity as a white, male, economically privileged Midwesterner, while also foregrounding characteristic and distinctive idiolect features that allowed him to connect to readers across implied social boundaries.
David Foster Wallace in Context
Author: Clare Hayes-Brady
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 100908108X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 763
Book Description
David Foster Wallace is regarded as one of the most important American writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This book introduces readers to the literary, philosophical and political contexts of Wallace's work. An accessible and useable resource, this volume conceptualizes his work within long-standing critical traditions and with a new awareness of his importance for American literary studies. It shows the range of issues and contexts that inform the work and reading of David Foster Wallace, connecting his writing to diverse ideas, periods and themes. Essays cover topics on gender, sex, violence, race, philosophy, poetry and geography, among many others, guiding new and long-standing readers in understanding the work and influence of this important writer.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 100908108X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 763
Book Description
David Foster Wallace is regarded as one of the most important American writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This book introduces readers to the literary, philosophical and political contexts of Wallace's work. An accessible and useable resource, this volume conceptualizes his work within long-standing critical traditions and with a new awareness of his importance for American literary studies. It shows the range of issues and contexts that inform the work and reading of David Foster Wallace, connecting his writing to diverse ideas, periods and themes. Essays cover topics on gender, sex, violence, race, philosophy, poetry and geography, among many others, guiding new and long-standing readers in understanding the work and influence of this important writer.
Thought-Based Linguistics
Author: Wallace Chafe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108421172
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
Argues for the central role of thoughts in the design of language.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108421172
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
Argues for the central role of thoughts in the design of language.
Wallaces' Farmer and Dairyman
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1732
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1732
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Memoir of Gen'l William Wallace Grout and Autobiography of Josiah Grout
Author: Josiah Grout
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Category : Generals
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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Category : Generals
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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Wallace's Monthly
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Category : Horse-racing
Languages : en
Pages : 1092
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Category : Horse-racing
Languages : en
Pages : 1092
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Wallace, the Hero of Scotland
Author: James Paterson
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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The Early Days of Sir William Wallace
Author: John Patrick Crichton-Stuart Marquess of Bute
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Languages : en
Pages : 74
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Languages : en
Pages : 74
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Robert Wallace, Life and Last Leaves
Author: Robert Wallace
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Languages : en
Pages : 662
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Languages : en
Pages : 662
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The Treasury of Languages
Author: James Bonwick
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Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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