On Bilingualism & Its Discontents

In a letter written toward the end of his life, the Russian novelist Ivan Turgenev remarked that a writer who did not write only in his mother tongue was a thief and a pig. Firmat comments that the complexity of these feelings suggests that the notion of language loyalty doesn't do justice to a...

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Published inDaedalus (Cambridge, Mass.) Vol. 134; no. 3; pp. 89 - 92
Main Author Firmat, Gustavo Pérez
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published One Rogers Street, Cambridge, MA 02142-1209, USA The MIT Press 01.07.2005
MIT Press
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Subjects
American literature
Bilingual education
Bilingualism
Biographies
Correspondence
Culture
Language
Latin American literature
Linguistics
Love
Loyalty
Nationalism
Native language
Native languages
Novelists
Poetry
Psycholinguistics
Russian language
Social psychology of language
Turgenev, Ivan S
Writers
Social psychology
Language attitude
Bilingualism
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Summary:In a letter written toward the end of his life, the Russian novelist Ivan Turgenev remarked that a writer who did not write only in his mother tongue was a thief and a pig. Firmat comments that the complexity of these feelings suggests that the notion of language loyalty doesn't do justice to an individual's attachment to his or her languages.
Bibliography:Summer, 2005
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ISSN:0011-5266
1548-6192
DOI:10.1162/0011526054622114