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suit each character. He formed new spelling to stress the eye dialect-- using
non-standard spelling to approximate a pronunciation, and to give an illusion
of reality to fictional character, for example the word “something” which he

deviated the standard and corrected spelling by using somepin’ or sumpin’
although this attempts to deal with phonology maybe ambiguous. As
suggested by Ives (1971), the primary purpose of a literary dialect was not to
create an accurate record of regional speech. The Southern dialect in
Steinbeck’s selected novels illustrated how Southern dialect functions in
literature as a whole which can be valuable to non-native students of the

English language whose may not have a chance to observe in a real speech
community.

References

Bailey, G. and Natalie M. 1987. “Decreolization?” Language in Society
16: 449–473.
Bailey, G. and Tillery, J. 1996. “The Persistence of Southern American English.”
Journal of English Linguistics 24: 308-321.

Bernstein, C. 2003. “Grammatical Features of Southern Speech.” In Nagel, S. J.
and Sanders, S. L. (eds.). English in the Southern United States.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 106-118.
Burkett, E. M. 1978. American English Dialects in Literature. London:
The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
Cochran, K. and R. Brinkmeyer. 2000. Remapping Southern Literature:
Contemporary Southern Writers and the West. Athens, GA: University
of Georgia Press.