Weird English

Informationen zum Autor Evelyn Nien-Ming Ch'ien is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Hartford. Klappentext "Weird English explores experimental and unorthodox uses of English by multilingual writers traveling from the canonical works of Nabokov and Hong Kingston to the less critiqued linguistic terrain of Junot Dí az and Arundhati Roy. Ch'ien looks at how the collision of other languages with English invigorated and propelled the evolution of language in the twentieth century and beyond. Zusammenfassung Weird English explores experimental and unorthodox uses of English by multilingual writers traveling from the canonical works of Nabokov and Hong Kingston to the linguistic terrain of Junot Díaz and Arundhati Roy. Ch'ien shows how the collision of other languages with English invigorated and propelled the evolution of language. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. A Shuttlecock above the Atlantic: Nabokov's Mid-Life and Mid-Geographic Crises 2. Chinky Writing 3. The Politics of Design: Arundhati Roy 4. "The Shit That's Other": Unintelligible Languages 5. Losing Our English! Losing Our Language: The Unintelligibility of Postcolonial Theory Notes Index

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• Authors: Evelyn Nien-Ming Ch’ien, Evelyn Nien-Ming Chien, Evelyn Nien-Ming Ch’ien, Evelyn Nien-Ming Ch?ien, Evelyn Nien-Ming Ch?ien Chien, Evelyn Nien-Ming Chʻien, Evelyn Nien-Ming Ch'ien, Evelyn Nien-Ming Ch''ien, CH&apos, &apos, Evelyn Nien-Ming ien, Evelyn Nien Ch'ien
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 01.10.2005
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics
• EAN: 9780674018198
• ISBN: 978-0-674-01819-8
• Pages: 352
• Dimensions (packing): 13.3 x 20.3 x 2.5 cm
• Subjects: English; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory; PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics; Literature: history & criticism; Historical and comparative linguistics