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Translating lives : living with two languages and cultures /

Title
Translating lives : living with two languages and cultures / [edited by] Mary Besemeres & Anna Wierzbicka.
Publication
St Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, 2007.

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Additional Authors
  • Besemeres, Mary.
  • Wierzbicka, Anna.
Description
xxiv, 181 p.; 23 cm.
Subject
  • Bilingualism > Psychological aspects
  • Identity (Psychology)
  • Intercultural communication
  • Language and culture > Australia
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. [167]-173.
Contents
Introduction / Mary Besemeres and Anna Wierzbicka -- Strangers at home / Kim Scott -- From bilingual to linguist / Michael Clyne -- Three worlds / Brij V. Lal -- Playgrounds and battlegrounds / Irene Ulman -- Returning to my mother's tongue / Zhengdao (Veronica) Ye -- East meets West, or does it really? / Jock Wong -- Growing up between two languages/two worlds / Andrea Witcomb -- Two languages, two cultures, one (?) self / Anna Wierbicka -- My experience of living in a different culture / Kyung-Joo Yoon -- Between żal and emotional blackmail / Mary Besemeres -- The journey of self-discovery in another language / Anna Gladkova -- Foster mother tongue / Eva Sallis.
ISBN
  • 9780702236037 (pbk.)
  • 0702236039 (pbk.)
LCCN
2007386833
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library