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- Title
Heterolingualism in/and translation: How legitimate are the Other and his/her language? An introduction.
- Authors
Meylaerts, Reine
- Abstract
The article presents a retrospect of researches on identity construction in a heterolingual context in literary and cultural translation studies. The challenges posed by multilingualism derived from mobility to monolingual literary studies in a global context are discussed. The issues concerning linguistic diversity in multilingual societies over language policy that are related to socio-political and cultural power struggle are discussed. The article presents studies related to heterolingualism in Canadian and French novels. The article suggests heterolingualism in translation studies for understanding multilevel cultural dynamics and new developments of present multilingual societies.
- Subjects
IDENTITY (Psychology) in literature; MULTILINGUALISM &; literature; LITERATURE translations; BILINGUALISM; FRENCH-Canadian drama; 20TH century French-Canadian literature; SINGAPOREAN drama (Chinese); MINORITY literature
- Publication
Target: International Journal on Translation Studies, 2006, Vol 18, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0924-1884
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/target.18.1.02mey