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Patois and linguistic pastiche in modern literature / edited by Giovanna Summerfield

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Newcastle, UK : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2007.
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1 online resource (xxi, 134 pages)
Additional Creators
Summerfield, Giovanna
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English.
Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX
Summary
In an era of globalization and European standardization, dialect, patois, and linguistic pastiche are marks of identity, of individual and regional nature. Paraphrasing the words of Luigi Pirandello, one tends to use the standard national language to express the concept, while one opts to use one's regional dialect to express the feeling. The literary tradition has always accepted language mixing. Linguists and literary critics have studied this phenomenon from different perspectives. No in ...
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ISBN
9781443809153 (electronic bk.)
1443809152 (electronic bk.)
1282192752
9781282192751
9786612192753
6612192755
9781847182111
1847182119
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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