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novels can all be classified as social novels dealing with the economic
problems of rural labor. One of the serious and aggressive fictions he wrote
is In Dubious Battle (1936), which deals with the strikes of the migratory fruit
pickers on California plantations. This was followed by Of Mice and
Men (1937), the story of the migrant workers. Lastly, The Grapes of Wrath
(1939), the story of Oklahoma tenant farmers moved to California where they
became migratory workers.

3. Methodology
In order to analyze Southern American English in John Steinbeck’s’
In Dubious Battle, Of Mice and Men, and The Grapes of Wrath, the researcher
created checklists from the frameworks. Phonological and grammatical
checklists included features, excerpts from the novel and quotations from the

characters. When reading through conversation between characters, the
researcher manually checked the features found. For lexical features, it was
automatically analyzed by the concordance software; AntConc. The
procedure was to insert a file of Southern glossary, as well as the novel files

and ran the program.

4. Results
4.1 Phonological Features

The characters who are supposedly speaker of SAE produced
some sounds that are different from the standard American words, for
example the word ‘fawther’ with /ɔ/ sound instead of /ɑ/ as in ‘father’. There
are five non-standard features appeared in the data.