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Martin Maiden; Chiara Cappellaro; Aditi LahiriPublished On
2020-05-20Page Range
pp. 69-86Print Length
17 pages
3. Not as 'Foreign' as You Think
Creating Bridges of Understanding across Languages
- Martin Maiden (author)
- Chiara Cappellaro (author)
- Aditi Lahiri (author)
Chapter of: Creative Multilingualism: A Manifesto (pp. 69–86)
Chapter 3 deploys methods from historical and experimental linguistics to examine how speakers of one language manage to understand people speaking another (related) language, identifying strategies they use to create meaning in response to the ‘other language’ – and strategies with which they create barriers to understanding in order to preserve a distinctive identity.