Les mots étrangers, les mots de l’étranger

The essay assesses the linguistic situation of the exile, a potentially comic figure, with intimations of tragedy (the exclusion of the foreign speaker as linguistic pharmakos), but also of liberation (the standard language is most alive when minorised by foreign words). The argument goes through a...

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Main Author: Jean-Jacques Lecercle
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Language:English
Published: Presses universitaires de Rennes 2015-03-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/lisa/8601
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description The essay assesses the linguistic situation of the exile, a potentially comic figure, with intimations of tragedy (the exclusion of the foreign speaker as linguistic pharmakos), but also of liberation (the standard language is most alive when minorised by foreign words). The argument goes through a reading of Adorno’s account of his return to Germany for linguistic reasons, of Nabokov’s Pnin, of the philosophy of precarious life in the work of Guillaume Le Blanc, of Althusser’s theory of ideology and notably the concepts of interpellation and counter-interpellation.
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Les mots étrangers, les mots de l’étranger
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title Les mots étrangers, les mots de l’étranger
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title_full_unstemmed Les mots étrangers, les mots de l’étranger
title_short Les mots étrangers, les mots de l’étranger
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