Language Catcher in the Rye
The American Dialect Society
The Language of 'The Catcher in the Rye' Author(s): Donald P. Costello Source: American Speech, Vol. 34, No. 3 (Oct., 1959), pp. 172-181 Published by: Duke University Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/454038 . Accessed: 30/01/2011 11:19
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THE LANGUAGE OF 'THE CATCHER IN THE RYE'
DONALD P. COSTELLO
RooseveltUniversity
TheCatcher theRye can be in ofJ. D. Salinger's justified not only on the basis of literary interest, but also on the basis Finn of linguistic significance.Today we study The Adventuresof Huckleberry in (with which many critics have compared The Catcher the Rye) not only as a great work of literary art, but as a valuable study in 1884 dialect. In coming
The Language of 'The Catcher in the Rye' Author(s): Donald P. Costello Source: American Speech, Vol. 34, No. 3 (Oct., 1959), pp. 172-181 Published by: Duke University Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/454038 . Accessed: 30/01/2011 11:19
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THE LANGUAGE OF 'THE CATCHER IN THE RYE'
DONALD P. COSTELLO
RooseveltUniversity
TheCatcher theRye can be in ofJ. D. Salinger's justified not only on the basis of literary interest, but also on the basis Finn of linguistic significance.Today we study The Adventuresof Huckleberry in (with which many critics have compared The Catcher the Rye) not only as a great work of literary art, but as a valuable study in 1884 dialect. In coming