Original sentence: However, this subtle African-American device, if linguistically analyzed, becomes notoriously difficult to pin down as Gates states in his book The Signifying Monkey:.In his highly influential book, The Signifying Monkey (1988), Gates expands the term to refer not merely to a specific vernacular strategy but also to a Trope of double-voiced repetition and reversal that exemplifies the distinguishing property of black Discourse.In most of these narratives, the Monkey manages to dupe the powerful Lion by signifying, a verbal strategy of indirection that exploits the gap between the denotative and figurative meanings of words
Edited sentence: However, this subtle African-American device, if linguistically analyzed, becomes notoriously difficult to pin down, as Gates states in his book The Signifying Monkey:.In his highly influential book, The Signifying Monkey (1988), Gates expands the term to refer not merely to a specific vernacular strategy but also to a trope of double-voiced repetition and reversal that exemplifies the distinguishing property of black Discourse.In most of these narratives, the Monkey manages to dupe the powerful Lion by signifying