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It
is very dificult to know how people spoke in an earlier time. We have
few recordings of speakers of another era. I find it interesting to
look at how fiction writers choose to represent those who lived earlier.
I have found it particularly interesting to see how the speech of cowboys
is represented in print. I am interested particularly in the works of
four writers and have studied their representation of cowboy speech:
Elmer Kelton, O. Henry, Will James, and Andy Adams. I plan to place
here examples of cowboy speech which I have selected and categorized
from these writers along with some commentary I have provided about
that speech.
Two
Editors' Comments on Representing Cowboy Speech in Print
Some
General Characteristics of Printed Cowboy Talk
Not
Hobbling Their Lips: Andy Adams' Use of Cowboy Dialect
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