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Mark Twain's languages :

discourse, dialogue, and linguistic variety

Sewell, David R. (1954-)

MARK TWAIN'S LANGUAGES

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1 Introduction:

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2 "A Lot of Rules":

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3 The Gilded Age and the Corruption of Language

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4 "Babel Come Again":

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5 Not All Trying to Talk Alike:

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6 Languages of Power and Submission in Pudd'nhead Wilson

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7 Toward a Chaos of Incomprehensibilities

Selected Bibliography

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MARK TWAIN'S
LANGUAGES

DISCOURSE, DIALOGUE,
AND LINGUISTIC VARIETY

David R. Sewell

University of California Press

Berkeley · Los Angeles · London