Translingualism

A Poetics of Language Mixing and Estrangement

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ID6226243
AuthorsEugene Ostashevsky (corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume50
Issue4
Pages171-194
Publication date2023-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
Venueboundary 2 (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0190-3659 • E-ISSN: 1527-2141
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/01903659-10694267
OpenAlexW4389119502
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited23

This essay attempts to think through what a “translingual” poetics might be like for contemporary poetry. Its first section discusses the term translingual as it is used in some areas of applied linguistics. The second section constructs an imaginary scenario where a poem employs more than one language and examines the relations between them. The third section asks whether the term translingual poetry might be used to refer not just to language-mixing but rather to a special way of handling even a single language. The fourth section tries to think of “translingual poetry” as one where the poet assumes the linguistic strategies of the language learner. The essay also revisits the argument by the Russian Formalist critics that the language of poetry resembles a foreign language

Argument (complex analysis · Art · Linguistics · Literature · Poetics · Poetry · Section (typography · Computer Science · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy

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