Hospitalité et hostilité : le multilinguisme à l’épreuve du « bien-écrire »

Multilingualism may represent a threat to the borders of each discrete language. In order not to be invaded, languages dictate their rules. Even after Gadda, and in a country like Italy, where dialects have always existed and where it has been difficult to establish the norms for a steady national l...

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Main Author: Chiara Montini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institut des textes & manuscrits modernes (ITEM) 2014-04-01
Series:Continents manuscrits
Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/coma/309
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description Multilingualism may represent a threat to the borders of each discrete language. In order not to be invaded, languages dictate their rules. Even after Gadda, and in a country like Italy, where dialects have always existed and where it has been difficult to establish the norms for a steady national language, publishers through proof-readers, critics, translators and writers may tend to “normalize” a text in order to make it intelligible, that is “well written”. Dolores Prato’s Giù la piazza non c’è nessuno and Beppe Fenoglio’s Ur-Partigiano Johnny are two peculiar examples of how a very original and personal style can be modified if an external hand (a proofreader, a curator or a translator) tries to make it respond to linguistic standards by violating its “impure” multilingual idiolect.
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title Hospitalité et hostilité : le multilinguisme à l’épreuve du « bien-écrire »
title_full Hospitalité et hostilité : le multilinguisme à l’épreuve du « bien-écrire »
title_fullStr Hospitalité et hostilité : le multilinguisme à l’épreuve du « bien-écrire »
title_full_unstemmed Hospitalité et hostilité : le multilinguisme à l’épreuve du « bien-écrire »
title_short Hospitalité et hostilité : le multilinguisme à l’épreuve du « bien-écrire »
title_sort hospitalite et hostilite le multilinguisme a l epreuve du bien ecrire
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