Bad English: Literature, Multilingualism and the Politics of Language in Contemporary Britain
- Submitting institution
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Queen Mary University of London
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 1484
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- ISBN
- 9781526108845
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- July
- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Bad English, funded by a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship and representing 8 years? research, is the first major study of multilingualism in contemporary literature in Britain. Its ambitious scope includes detailed studies of both poetry (Capildeo, Leonard, Crawford, Kinloch, Mundair, Nagra, Watts, Bergvall) and novels (Kelman, Saadi, Aboulela, Guo, Chikwava), in relation to debates about language traced through TV, radio, newspapers, political discourse, educational and immigration policy, social media. Its approach is cross-disciplinary, working with sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology alongside critical theory and literary studies, to develop new understanding of the relationship between multilingualism, language politics, and literary form.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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