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.
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