Beyond the mother tongue
Language as cultural capital in Xiaolu Guo’s A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12701902 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Léa Sinoimeri (University of Paris, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 734-748 |
| Publication date | 2021-10-13 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language and Intercultural Communication (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1470-8477 • E-ISSN: 1747-759X |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14708477.2021.1983582 |
| OpenAlex | W3206319882 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 26 |
The paper investigates multilingual aesthetics in Xiaolu Guo’s A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers (2007). It argues that the novel refuses and undermines the family romance of the mother tongue by grounding its experimental form and language in Western poststructuralist theory. Yet, the text fictionalises the encounter with the other language as a love story, a fatal romance of conquest and profound metamorphosis thus revealing the complex status of English as cultural capital. As it exhibits multilingual strategies, the book also displays an elite cosmopolitism based on European literary canonical works that reinforces rather than discards monolingual ides of language and literature
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |