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Bad English : Literature, multilingualism, and the politics of language in contemporary Britain /

Bad English investigates the impact of increasing language diversity, precipitated by migration, globalisation, and new forms of communication, in transforming contemporary literature in Britain. Considering writers whose work engages experimentally, playfully, and ambivalently with English's p...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gilmour, Rachael, 1973- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester [England] : Manchester University Press, 2020.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The New Union Flag Project
  • Introduction : bad English
  • Thi langwij a thi guhtr
  • Dictionary trawling
  • Prosthetic language
  • 'Passing my voice into theirs'
  • Living in translation
  • 'The language is the border'
  • Conclusions : 'say parsley.'