Fargo and Language

Language plays a pivotal role in Fargo. Phonetically, lexically and syntactically influenced by Germanic/Scandinavian languages, the Upper Midwest American English carries several connotations termed “Minnesota nice”. Combined with the genre of crime/murder mystery, the film and, to some extent, the TV series subvert the stereotypical image of a down-home Midwestern American, whose reservedness and conservativeness imbue the mentioned language variant, which is almost completely impervious to speech genre variation.

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