It's also usually narrated in a gritty vernacular, and the version of 19th-century Western speech in "The Sisters Brothers" is surely gritty, as well as deadpan and often very comic.
He has a good ear for Western speech, and he writes as convincingly about an era he never experienced as he does about such diverse topics as cotton farming, quail hunting and gelding stallions.
DeWitt's version of this vernacular is a stylized abstraction of Western speech after it originated in the South, found a niche in the Civil War and crossed the Mississippi, where it passed through any number of filters: political orations, florid journalism and mouths too full of chaw to say much, to name just a few.
On the basis of a few heterogeneous phonetic features, one theory maintains that separation into dialects began early, with the Eastern dialect areas (including central and south Italy) developing popular features and the school-influenced Western speech areas maintaining more literary standards.
He claimed western speech therapy didn't work in India.
Right after Obama invited him to the White House, Karzai embarked on a series of anti-Western speeches.
Mr. Masri, with his fiery anti-Western speeches, has been a contentious figure in Britain for several years, but the police have held back from arresting him.
But he is also part of an emerging group of politicians who consider President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to be harming the country's economy through his acerbic anti-Western speeches and isolationist policies.
Mr. Ghamdy was a marginal cleric who tried to make a name for himself through inflammatory, anti-Western speeches, losing his position when he was banned by the government from preaching in 1994, said one Saudi close to the government.
Once the darling of the international community, Karzai made fervently anti-Western speeches in his later years in power and resisted U.S. pressure to sign a crucial security treaty.
A video surfaced of Javaid, his ex-brother-in-law, giving an anti-Western speech.
