The polyglot writer: what multilingual texts reveal about writers' emotional attachment to the languages they speak

多语言作家：多语言文本揭示了作家对其所讲语言的情感依恋

• 批准号: 2887779
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Brighton
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2887779
• 关键词: polyglot; writer; what; multilingual; texts

Heterolingualism or multilingualism is the use of several languages within a single text (Grutman 1997) and this project considers what heterolingual and multilingual texts say about the polyglot writer's emotional attachment to the languages they use. Literary theory in this area has thus far focused on representations of the Other and power dynamics revealed by the languages used (Grutman 1997, Suchet 2014), on polyglossia in a specific era (Lacroix 2016), or on how multilingual texts are translated (Sansonetti & Hélie 2022). The way a polyglot writer identifies with the languages they use, and the creative and cognitive processes behind why they may switch language, however, have been overlooked. Linguist Aneta Pavlenko stresses the importance of our emotional attachment to languages in the construction and expression of identity. She claims that "emotions have traditionally been undertheorized" (2006) when looking at bi- or multilingual individuals and conducted studies on the emotions different languages elicit in those individuals (2006). According to the "Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis" (Hojier 1954), languages structure our thoughts and inspire different worldviews; this is known as linguistic relativism. Given that language is also a sensory phenomenon (Tomatis 1991), it is also reasonable to acknowledge that linguistic diversity implies distinct emotional attachments to languages. Therefore, in addition to lexical differences between languages, these distinct emotional attachments to languages can lead the polyglot writer to switch languages within a text. By applying Pavlenko's psycholinguistic analyses to multilingual texts, this project will focus on polyglot writers' identities and provide an understanding of how their emotional attachment to their languages is revealed. As well as shedding light on how we perceive language through the scope of multilingual literature, this project seeks to contribute to heterolingual and multilingual literary theory and fill the gap currently existing around the polyglot writer's creative process

多语种或多语种是在一个单一的文本中使用几种语言（Grutman 1997），这个项目考虑了多语种和多语种文本对多语种作家对他们使用的语言的情感依恋的看法。到目前为止，这一领域的文学理论主要集中在所使用的语言所揭示的他者和权力动态的表征（Grutman 1997，Suchet 2014），特定时代的多语现象（Lacroix 2016），或多语言文本如何翻译（Sansonetti & Hélie 2022）。然而，一个通晓多种语言的作家认同他们所使用的语言的方式，以及他们为什么会转换语言背后的创造和认知过程，却被忽视了。语言学家Aneta Pavlenko强调了我们对语言的情感依恋在构建和表达身份方面的重要性。她声称，“情感在传统上被低估了”（2006年），当观察双语或多语个体时，并对不同语言在这些个体中引起的情感进行了研究（2006年）。根据“萨皮尔-沃尔夫假说”（Hojier 1954），语言构建了我们的思想，激发了不同的世界观;这被称为语言相对主义。鉴于语言也是一种感官现象（Tomatis 1991），承认语言多样性意味着对语言的不同情感依恋也是合理的。因此，除了语言之间的词汇差异外，这些对语言的独特情感依恋也会导致多语作家在文本中切换语言。通过将Pavlenko的心理语言学分析应用于多语种文本，该项目将专注于多语种作家的身份，并了解他们对语言的情感依恋是如何揭示的。除了通过多语言文学的范围来阐明我们如何看待语言之外，该项目还试图为异语和多语言文学理论做出贡献，并填补目前存在于多语言作家创作过程中的差距