Chris Abouzeid at Beyond The Margins looks at Mark Twain’s ‘near photographic detail’ use of phonetic dialogue in Huckleberry Finn and considers some other ways of using diction, idiom and syntax to convey dialect and accent.
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Chris Abouzeid at Beyond The Margins looks at Mark Twain’s ‘near photographic detail’ use of phonetic dialogue in Huckleberry Finn and considers some other ways of using diction, idiom and syntax to convey dialect and accent.