Book
Language and literature in a glocal world
Abstract
This collection of critical essays investigates the intersections of the global and local in literature and language. Exploring the connections that exist between global forms of knowledge and their local, regional applications, this volume explores multiple ways in which literature is influenced, and in turn, influences, movements and events across the world and how these are articulated in various genres of world literature, including the resultant challenges to translation. This book also explores the way in which languages, especially English, transform and continue to be reinvented in its use across the world. Using perspectives from sociolinguistics, discourse analysis and semiotics, this volume focuses on diasporic literature, travel literature, and literature in translation from different parts of the world to study the ways in which languages change and grow as they are sought to be "owned" by the communities which use them in different contexts. Emphasizing on interdisciplinary studies and methodologies, this collection centralizes both research that theorizes the links between the local and the global and that which shows, through practical evidence, how the local and global interact in new and challenging ways.
Details | Table of Contents
framing studies in glocalization
pp.1-11
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8468-3_1the construction of glocal identities in India's amul butter ads
pp.29-56
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8468-3_3global English as a nexus of practice
pp.57-76
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8468-3_4a divergence in code-switching practices in cebuano and English speakers in Philippines
pp.77-97
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8468-3_5pp.99-113
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8468-3_6the New Zealand flag debate deconstructed
pp.115-126
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8468-3_7a case study in Poland
pp.127-136
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8468-3_8singularity and multitude in Mohsin Hamid's how to get filthy rich in rising Asia
pp.161-175
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8468-3_10Orhan Pamuk's characters in relation to the treaty of Sèvres
pp.177-192
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8468-3_11a writer's vision
pp.193-205
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8468-3_12an Arabic version of Achebe's things fall apart
pp.207-224
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8468-3_13Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Dordrecht
Year: 2018
Pages: 240
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-8468-3
ISBN (hardback): 978-981-10-8467-6
ISBN (digital): 978-981-10-8468-3
Full citation:
(2018) Language and literature in a glocal world. Dordrecht, Springer.