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Different Voices : The Singaporean/Malaysian Novel /

The Different Voices: Singaporean/Malaysian Novel, focuses on the challenges that face a novelist in the literary representation of a multilingual environment. The early writers used strategies like vernacular transcription and mimetic translation. However, the close readings of twelve selected nove...

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Autor principal: Puthucheary, Rosaly
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), 2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:The Different Voices: Singaporean/Malaysian Novel, focuses on the challenges that face a novelist in the literary representation of a multilingual environment. The early writers used strategies like vernacular transcription and mimetic translation. However, the close readings of twelve selected novels by non-European writers from 1980 to 2001 indicate the increasing use of strategies like lexical borrowings, code mixing, code switching and varieties of Singapore-Malayan English, instead. Puth ...
Descripción Física:1 online resource (318 pages).
ISBN:9789812309129