Contemporary Poetry

176 contemporary poetry So what’s a cri-de-coeur, cunt? Can’t you speak the language that yer mam spoke. Think of ’er! Can yer o ...

dialects, idiolects and multilingual poetries 177 The six o’clock news is as unlikely to be read by a working- class Liverpudlia ...

178 contemporary poetry ‘full’ range of reference; whether agreed value has been, or can be, placed on works of literary art tha ...

dialects, idiolects and multilingual poetries 179 THE ‘BIG ONE, BETTER TONGUE’: JACKIE KAY The intervention of Scots dialect in ...

180 contemporary poetry an emotional state such as crabbit, ill tempered, or dreich as drab or dreary. Emphatically, Kay illustr ...

dialects, idiolects and multilingual poetries 181 one, better tongue’ (p. 21 ). This attention to multiple language use and chal ...

182 contemporary poetry socially, and politically’ (p. 6 ). For him ‘Indigenous language can be a strong part of this consciousn ...

dialects, idiolects and multilingual poetries 183 he is always traveling, he’s really stupid, he’s kind of bad... most of the ti ...

184 contemporary poetry danger and even personal transformation. As with the trickster mythology, the deer woman is aligned with ...

dialects, idiolects and multilingual poetries 185 He argues for translations to be read as ‘texts in their own right permitting ...

186 contemporary poetry The smuggling of familiar material from one language to another seemed to me on refl ection, too easy a ...

dialects, idiolects and multilingual poetries 187 continuity between how things are represented through language and an innate s ...

188 contemporary poetry between the social values tied up in both languages. I suppose, that in some way, I still feel guilty ab ...

dialects, idiolects and multilingual poetries 189 to Tolstoy and ‘nourishing’ Kafka, then proceeds to ‘lick the fat’ (p. 56 ) fr ...

190 contemporary poetry foreigner’s spoken English, determined by a mother tongue, each person’s noise fell on a colouring ear, ...

dialects, idiolects and multilingual poetries 191 domesticity. While the child recognises that wrens are birds, and yarn is knit ...

192 contemporary poetry Returning home as an adult, the son fi nds three scrolls, one which details two persimmons ‘so full they ...

dialects, idiolects and multilingual poetries 193 Whereas the men’s poetry was more linguistically free, when Chicanas started p ...

194 contemporary poetry violent history of conquest and subordination. Commenting on the development of Chicana writing, Norma A ...

dialects, idiolects and multilingual poetries 195 In addition, for Bruce-Novoa ‘Bilingualism implies moving from one language co ...