ABSTRACT:Even the smallest conversational turns can index macro-contexts of social inequality, racialization, and capital; fictional narrative, coordinating the particular and the global, seems well positioned to represent these scalar dynamics. But how exactly does the textual medium of the novel link the particularities of voice with the politics of race? Scholarship on this question has often turned either to the representation of vernacular speech (e.g., dialect) or to free indirect discourse, the latter as a "double-voiced" mode that linguistically concretizes Du Bois's influential theory of black double consciousness. This essay draws an alternative approach from Du Bois's fictional practice, highlighting the affinities between his use of dialogue in The Quest of the Silver Fleece (1911) and recent work in linguistic anthropology. In the turn-of-the-century US South represented in Quest, the functions of conversation are intricately connected with the production and exchange of cotton—otherwise known as gossypium hirsutum, giving the essay a key term, gossypoglossia, for describing these connections between a racialized global economy and particularized forms of talk. To attend to those forms is to locate theoretical resources in the very thing that critics, often dismissing Du Bois's dialogue as unrealistic or discordant, have found least compelling about his fiction. For Du Bois, the essay argues, fictional dialogue is not only (nor primarily) a site for the realist representation of conversation, but also a speculative mode in which the unspoken metapragmatic contexts of the "color-line" can be rendered explicit, unfamiliar, and subject to contestation.

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Gossypoglossia：WEB Du Bois 和对话的语用学

摘要：即使是最小的对话转向也可以索引社会不平等、种族化和资本的宏观背景；协调特定和全局的虚构叙事似乎很好地代表了这些标量动态。但是，小说的文本媒介究竟是如何将声音的特殊性与种族政治联系起来的呢？关于这个问题的学术研究常常转向白话语言（例如方言）的表征或自由间接话语，后者是一种“双声”模式，在语言上具体化了杜波依斯有影响的黑人双重意识理论。本文从杜波依斯的虚构实践中汲取了另一种方法，强调了他在《银羊毛的探索》（1911）中使用对话与最近在语言人类学方面的工作之间的相似之处。在 Quest 所代表的世纪之交的美国南部，对话的功能与棉花的生产和交换有着错综复杂的联系——也称为 gossypium hirsutum，为这篇文章提供了一个关键术语 gossypoglossia，用于描述棉花之间的这些联系。种族化的全球经济和特殊的谈话形式。关注这些形式就是将理论资源定位在评论家通常认为杜波依斯的对话不切实际或不和谐的地方，他们认为他的小说最不引人注目。这篇文章认为，对于杜波依斯来说，虚构的对话不仅（也不主要）是对对话进行现实主义表现的场所，