In search of lost hybridity: the French Daniel Deronda

Wolf, Alain J. E. (2017) In search of lost hybridity: the French Daniel Deronda. Language and Literature, 26 (3). pp. 213-226. ISSN 0963-9470

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Abstract

Starting from a set of examples of borrowings from French in George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda, I explore the various ways in which the characters’ and narrator’s use of mixed English–French utterances generates inferences which make the transcending of their mono-cultural self possible. I go on to argue that in Jumeau’s recent French translation of the novel, the reader is not given access to those inferences, resulting in the erasing of an Anglo-European, cosmopolitan identity.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	linguistic borrowing ,langue intermédiaire,composite idiom,cosmopolitan identity,implied meaning
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Language and Communication Studies
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	08 Nov 2016 16:00
Last Modified:	21 Jul 2023 09:43
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/61268
DOI:	10.1177/0963947016686654

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