American English: Dialects and Variation
- ISBN-10
- 1118390229
- ISBN-13
- 9781118390221
- Series
- American English
- Category
- Language Arts & Disciplines
- Pages
- 440
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-12-29
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons
- Authors
- Walt Wolfram, Natalie Schilling
Description
Another example in which dialect writing is used in literature to portray genuineness and individual voice can be found in the works of poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, who wrote about a quarter of all his poems in a vernacular dialect at the ...
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