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Contents

Creative Multilingualism — A Manifesto

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Introducing Creative Multilingualism

1

Katrin Kohl and Wen-chin Ouyang

1.

The Creative Power of Metaphor

25

Katrin Kohl, Marianna Bolognesi and Ana Werkmann Horvat

2.

Creating a Meaningful World: Nature in Name, Metaphor and Myth

47

Karen Park, Felice S. Wyndham, Andrew Gosler and John Fanshawe

3.

Not as ‘Foreign’ as You Think: Creating Bridges of Understanding across Languages

69

Martin Maiden, Chiara Cappellaro and Aditi Lahiri

4.

A Breath of Fresh Air… Ivan Vyrypaev’s Oxygen (2002): From Moscow to Birmingham via Oxford

87

Rajinder Dudrah, Julie Curtis, Philip Ross Bullock and Noah Birksted-Breen

5.

Multilingualism and Creativity in World Literature

109

Wen-chin Ouyang

6.

Prismatic Translation

131

Matthew Reynolds, Sowon S. Park and Kate Clanchy

7.

Getting Creative in the Languages Classroom

151

Suzanne Graham, Linda Fisher, Julia Hofweber and Heike Krüsemann

8.

Inspiring Language Learners

177

Jane Hiddleston, Laura Lonsdale, Chiara Cappellaro and Daniel Tyler-McTighe

9.

Languages at Work

203

Katrin Kohl and Jonathan Black

10.

Creating Languages

223

Katrin Kohl

Why Learn a Language?

249

Find Out More

255

Bibliography

271

List of Illustrations

291

Notes on the Authors and Contributors

299

Acknowledgements

309

Index

311