When there is dialogue spelling out a word, are the individual letters graphemes?

[Weijia Cheng]

i.e., from chapter 1 of The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/james-weldon-johnson/the-autobiography-of-an-ex-colored-man/text/chapter-1

I rattled off, “t-h-i-r-d, third,” in a way which said, “Why don’t you give us something hard?”

Are the individual letters considered graphemes, and should they be italicized?

[Alex Cabal]

Yes, you can do that. Thanks!

On 1/20/21 8:28 AM, Weijia Cheng wrote:
>
> i.e., from chapter 1 of /The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man/:

> https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/james-weldon-johnson/the-autobiography-of-an-ex-colored-man/text/chapter-1
>
> I rattled off, “t-h-i-r-d, third,” in a way which said, “Why don’t you
> give us something hard?”
>
> Are the individual letters considered graphemes, and should they be
> italicized?
>

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