Arifi, KhadidjaKoussa, Toufik2018-03-192018-03-192014http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/2544This study tries to investigate the different cultures and dialects exist in the United States. The main objective is to present the different cultures and portray the linguistic varieties which exist in the United States of America at the early nineteenth century. To reach this aim and fulfill this point, some terms and concepts are clarified, like : Patterns of Communication, Style-shifting and code markers, that help in analyzing and investigating the different dialects and culture exist in different regions in America. All these markers portrayed in Huck Finn by the different characters, who are embodied in the novel. This these also tries to depict the social changes that America witnessed in the nineteenth century, through Huck Finn, in addition to the controversy over the novel. In order to highlight the linguistic and cultural varieties, I take Mark Twain's Huck Finn, on which an ethnographic study is applied, describing and investigating the different dialects and cultures present in different speech communities that are associated with different factors and markers: sex, class, age, ethnicity, and region. Furthermore, the theses main concern is the depiction of the varied dialects exist in America as a multi-cultural nation-state. All these markers portrayed in Huck Finn by the different characters, who are embodied in the novel.enNovel : Mark Twain : The Adventures of hucklebrry finnEthnography of communication in cross- cultural setting Mark Twain's " The adventures of hucklebrry finn"Other