Spotlights on Dialect Use in Benhadouga’s Popular Culture Novel Rih El Djanoub

Abstract

The central core of the present research work is to depict the role of dialect use in literature, taking the Algerian novel Rih El Djanoub written by Abd Elhamid Benhadouga as a field of study. Based on a set of literary, linguistic and sociolinguistic approaches, the available cultural and linguistic data in the novel have been analysed and interpreted to unveil the real and ordinary life of the novel’s fictional characters with an aim to raise dialect awareness among readers of literary dialect. In fact, the study of the insertion of dialectal features in literary style does not only draw beautiful portraits about the characters’ behaviour, mentality and life style, but also offers a special elegance and charm for literary works.