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โครงการรวบรวมและจัดทําเอกสารวารสารอิเล็กทรอนิกส์ มหาวิทยาลัยเกษตรศาสตร์

วารสารมนุษยศาสตร์ ปีที่ 21 ฉบับที่ 1 (มกราคม-มิถุนายน 2557) 191

phonetic feature, Steinbeck replaced the missing consonants and syllables
with apostrophe (‘). Therefore, words such as ‘and’, ‘hand’, and ‘just’ are
written as an’, han’ and jus’. Here are the examples from the novels.

1) Final /d/ or /t/
- Jus’ remember it later [IDB, p.301]
- don't you do no messing aroun' with him [OMM, p.79]
- Lef' the buckets out for you fellas [TGW, p.128]

4.2 Grammatical features
The result shown ten grammatical deviations marked in data.

Table 6 The results of grammatical features

Features No. of Excerpts
occurrence

1. Ain’t 1,189 It ain't a nice way to talk [TGW]
2. Double negative 1,129 it wasn't no fault of mine [TGW]
3. Copula absence 502 You boy working here? [IDB]
4. A – prefixing 347 I been a-thinkin’ a lot [TGW]

5. Substitution of was and 241 We was drivin' all night [TGW]
were
6. Generalized part./past 192 You done a hell of a lot [IDB]
7. Regularization (irregular 71 I knowed his aunt Clara [OMM]

verb)
8. General plural absence 30 I notice all stuff like that [TGW]
9. 3rd singular absence 15 Who hurt George? [OMM]
10. Fixin’ to 4 You're fixin' to make a speech
[TGW]