“With their tongues cocked and loaded:”The power of language and dialect in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God
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SummaryZora Neale Hurston was a cultural anthropologist for her own culture. She spent much of her life recording the stories and saying of the people around her, both in Harlem and abroad in the American South. She poured her energy into representing people the way she saw them, or heard them, as the case may be. Her use of vernacular language is powerful and convincing in her fiction and non-fiction. It is one of the most distinguishing features of her work. Language was important to Zora as a writer, but also as an anthropologist. To Zora, the language and speech patterns of the characters in the story were just as important as the story itself.
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- Dialect and speech in Their Eyes Were Watching God.
- This affront of words.
- The use of metaphor and simile in the novel.
- The Ebonics spoken in the US.
- Hurston embraces the African American dialect and language.
- The exchanges between Janie and Joe.
- The use of dialect.
- Zora's ability to weave standard English in with vernacular.
- Pheoby's listening is significant to Janie's development.
- Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God.
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