Multilingualism and Ranges of Tone in Nabokov's Bend Sinister
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4212923 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Antonina Filonov Gove (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1973 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 79-90 |
| Publication date | 1973-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Slavic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-6779 • E-ISSN: 2325-7784 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2494074 |
| OpenAlex | W2332316499 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Oh, I love her hands, Van, because they have the same rodinka (small birthmark), because the fingers are so long, because, in fact, they are Van's in a reducing mirror, in tender diminutive, v laskatel'noy forme' (the talk-as so often happened at emotional moments in the Veen-Zemski branch of that strange family, the noblest in Estotiland, the grandest on Antiterra-was speckled with Russian, an effect not too consistently reproduced in this chapter-the readers are restless tonight)."-AdaThe interpolation of other-language material into the primary language of discourse is a well-known phenomenon in the speech of bi- and multilinguals. Social scientists studying bilingualism have termed this practice "code-switching." In literature, code-switching is potentially available to any writer who commands another language besides his own and is not restricted from its use by literary canon. Practitioners of code-switching in the West include Petronius and Cicero, medieval translators, Rabelais and Montaigne, Sterne, Tolstoy, Pound, Eliot, Joyce, e. e. cummings, Hemingway, and Anthony Burgess. The motives for literary code-switching are many-terminological precision, connotative nuance, citation and allusion, display of erudition, an illusion of verisimilitude, irony, and word play
Allusion · Art · Code (set theory · Code-switching · Linguistics · Literature · Multilingualism · Tone (literature · Verisimilitude · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis and Cultural Communication · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.4 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2024 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |