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

杂语或多语是指在一篇课文中使用多种语言(Grutman，1997)，该项目研究了多语和多语课文对多语种作者所用语言的情感依恋。到目前为止，这一领域的文学理论一直专注于所使用的语言所揭示的他者和权力动态的表征(Grutman 1997，Suchet 2014)、特定时代的多语种(Lacroix 2016)或多语种文本的翻译(Sansonetti&Hélie 2022)。然而，通晓多种语言的作家认同他们所使用的语言的方式，以及他们可能转换语言背后的创造性和认知过程，被忽视了。语言学家阿内塔·帕夫连科强调了我们对语言的情感依恋在身份的构建和表达中的重要性。她声称，当研究双语或多语种的个体时，“情绪传统上被低估了”(2006)，并对不同语言在这些个体中引发的情绪进行了研究(2006)。根据“萨皮尔-沃尔夫假说”(Hojier 1954)，语言构成了我们的思维并激发出不同的世界观，这就是众所周知的语言相对主义。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，这些对语言的明显情感依恋也会导致通晓多种语言的作者在文本中转换语言。通过将帕夫连科的心理语言学分析应用于多语种文本，本项目将关注多语种作家的身份，并提供对他们对语言的情感依恋如何揭示的理解。除了阐明我们如何通过多语种文学来感知语言之外，这个项目还试图为多语种和多语种文学理论做出贡献，并填补目前围绕多语种作家创作过程的空白

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