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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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Singapore :
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS),
2009.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| 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 ... |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (318 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9789812309129 |