Research query: Crowell article

[Allan A Metcalf]

Colleagues, can you help this inquirer? Mike Crowell was at Knox College, but 
I believe he's no longer alive, so she will have to look elsewhere for the 
text of this paper. If you can help, please be sure to reply to her e-mail 
address,

jpaznik at nyc.rr.com

Thanks! - Allan Metcalf

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 Hi,
I am sorry to be a bother, especially in the summer, but I am hoping you 
can/will point me in the right direction. For some research, I am trying to track 
down a paper presented at a meeting of the American Dialect Society in 1978. 
The reference information is below. Although the paper has an ERIC number, it 
is not available from ERIC. I cannot figure out from where it might be 
available and can find no "contact" listing for the American Dialect Society. HELP!
Thanks much in advance.

Jane Paznik-Bondarin
Emerita Professor
Borough of Manhattan Community College/City University of New York


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ERIC #: ED172581
Title: Role and Variety in Popular American Fiction: The Case of the Dime 
Novel.
Authors: Crowell, Michael
Descriptors: American Culture; Analytical Criticism; Cultural Influences; 
Dialect Studies; Language Attitudes; Language Research; Language Role; Language 
Usage; Language Variation; Literary Criticism; Nineteenth Century Literature; 
Nonstandard Dialects; North American English; Novels; Social Dialects; 
Socioeconomic Influences; Sociolinguistics; Standard Spoken Usage; United States 
Literature
Source: N/A
Peer-Reviewed: N/A
Publisher: N/A
Publication Date: 1978-00-00
Pages: 13
Pub Types: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Opinion Papers
Abstract: Dialect writing in nineteenth-century America has been used as a 
source of evidence about popular American language and culture. Works employing 
dialect have been studied as documents embodying perceptions of the relation 
between character, role, and moral values on the one hand, and speech variety 
on the other. Critics have noticed the difference between the pompous narration 
in many of the works and the colorful dialect of the characters in them. One 
study of the dime novel centered on the development of the American hero and 
demonstrated the improtance of dialect as an indicator of social standing and 
moral worth in the popular world view found in dime novels. By shifting 
attention to the varieties of language used in dime novels one can gain insight into 
attitudes toward language in its social setting. The conspicuous use of 
exaggerated varieties of English apparently indicates the importance attached to 
variation by both authors and the reading public. This paper analyzes the 
relation between the varieties of the dialect used in one dime novel and judgments 
about the oriqin, roles, and moral worth of its characters. The popularity of 
these books suggests that such an analysis can add an historical perspective to 
the understanding of current attitudes toward languages. (Author/AMH)
Abstractor: N/A
Reference Count: N/A
 


Note: Paper presented at the joint meeting of the American Dialect Society 
and the Conference on New Ways of Analyzing Variation in English (7th, 
Washington, D.C., November 3, 1978)
Identifiers: N/A
Record Type: Non-Journal
Level: 1 - Documents indexed from January 1993 forward available for free 
through the ERIC Web site; all others restricted to microfiche
Institutions: N/A
Sponsors: N/A
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: N/A
Audiences: N/A
Languages: English
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