Multilingualism in Modernist Fiction

Taylor-Batty, Juliette

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“…I argue that specific linguistic choices at the micro level contribute to the communication of wider themes at the macro level: themes of alienation, displacement and disorientation that have been noted by many literary critics (e.g. Rother, 1986;Savola, 2006;Tomkins, 2008). Two topics which emerge as particularly important in the analysis of this extract are the use of linguistic forms which are in some way "marked" in relation to readers' expectations, and the occurrence of conversational implicatures which are indeterminate as to the exact nature of the implicit meaning conveyed.…”

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“…Savola (2006) describes meaning as simply absent; "The novel presents the main characters as aimless, displaced persons without a secure sense of meaning or value" (Savola, 2006: p. 26). Tomkins (2008) notes that this lack of secure meaning is reflected in the language and the conversation of the characters themselves, which are understated and vague, and in which "nonspecific language becomes increasingly popular among the members of Jake's expatriate clique" (Tomkins, 2008: p. 750). For Adair (2012), the listless, unreliable conversations of Fiesta in fact characterise the text; it is "a novel of gossip" (Adair, 2012: p. 118).…”

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Pragmatics and Literature

Chapman

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2019

Linguistic Approaches to Literature

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Section: The Novel and Its Criticsmentioning

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Pragmatics and Literature

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2019

Linguistic Approaches to Literature

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“…Having mentioned some strategies that ensure comprehension, it is important to highlight that not all texts aim at translating every aspect of polyglottal elements. For example, Taylor-Batty (2013) in her work on modernist texts argues that…”

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10. Multilingualism in fiction

Locher¹

2017

Pragmatics of Fiction

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Multilingualism is a fact that has shaped and is shaping the linguistic setup of our societies. Fictional texts also have a long tradition of drawing on polyglottal means, a fact that has been studied in many different disciplines. This chapter sketches the different research traditions that explore the phenomenon. It touches especially on the techniques of incorporating different languages in the same fictional text, such as attempts at presenting authentic multilingual renditions as well as simplifying the multilingual situation in processes that draw on the potential of linguistic indexicality, translation and contextual embedding. The main focus lies on the potential pragmatic effects that the texts can achieve, such as scene creation/enrichment, character creation, the creation of humor, the display of social criticism, realism and ideological debates of difference and belonging. For a text to work it is rarely necessary to transpose multilingual reality entirely in all its complexity into a fictional text. However, the ways in which multilingualism does occur in fiction deserve to be studied in their own right.

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“…Though English has often been treated – and, in curricular terms, shaped – as a subject which can help to forge societal cohesion through enforcing linguistic and cultural norms of ‘Britishness’, it is in fact an inherently linguistically diverse, as well as linguistically reflexive, field. In literary modernist scholarship, for example, Juliette Taylor‐Batty () has recently argued for the significance of multilingualism as a phenomenon fundamental to writers from Samuel Beckett and James Joyce to Jean Rhys and Dorothy Richardson. In fact, writers in English throughout the twentieth and twenty‐first centuries have reflected, and reflected on, the everyday experiences of language diversity, and the expressive potential of writing from outside the conventions of ‘Standard English’.…”

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Reading/writing multilingualism: language, literature and creativity in the multilingual classroom

Gilmour¹

2017

English in Education

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This article examines the relationship between the discipline of 'English Literature' and the contemporary multilingual classroom. It argues that, although our field has often been cast as a kind of corrective to the 'problem' of language diversity by helping to teach language norms, literature canand shouldbe made a preeminent space for students to reflect on their own experiences of language diversity, and to translate this into self-reflexive critical tools to think about language in literature. As an example of this kind of practice in action, the article discusses the experience and outcomes of a project in the English Literature department at Queen Mary University of London, Reading/Writing Multilingualism, which involved year 10 and 12 students from two local secondary schools who have English as an additional language.

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Multilingualism in Modernist Fiction

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Reading/writing multilingualism: language, literature and creativity in the multilingual classroom

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