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International Perspectives on Multilingual Literatures: From Translingualism to Language Mixing

Julian Preece Orcid Logo, Katie Jones, Aled Rees

International Perspectives on Multilingual Literatures: From Translingualism to Language Mixing

Swansea University Author: Julian Preece Orcid Logo

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This carefully curated collection of essays charts interactions between majority languages (including English, French, German, Italian and Japanese) and minority dialects or languages pushed to the margins (including Arabic, Bengali, Esperanto, Neapolitan and Welsh) through a series of case studies...

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Published in: International Perspectives on Multilingual Literatures: From Translingualism to Language Mixing
ISBN: 978-1527560178
Published: Newcastle upon Tyne Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2021
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