„AKÝ VPLYV MÁ NA MOJU NEMČINU SLOVENČINA?“ METAMULTILINGVIZMUS A LITERÁRNA VIACJAZYČNOSŤ V TEXTOCH IRENY BREŽNE

• Authors: Schwarzbacher Adriana

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“What influence does Slovak have on my German?” Meta-multilingualism and literary multilingualism in Irena Brežná’s texts

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

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The author’s experience of emigration makes visible – in literary works and public speeches – one of the aspects of multilingualism as not only a consequence of migration and globalization, but also of the concept of meta-multilingualism which contributes to expanding of our understanding of linguistic dynamics in literary production. Through selected literary texts and interviews with the Slovak-Swiss author Irena Brežná, the paper outlines the concept of meta-multilingualism and literary multilingualism as one of the characteristics of the “new” world literature. Meta-multilingualism as a generator of literary multilingualism is presented through the definition by Elke Sturm-Trigonakis and through its realisation in the form of linguistic commentary. The paper also takes a look at the reflection of languages in I. Brežná’s writing as one of the frameworks of her work and a part of the literary process. At the same time, it looks at the concept of monolingualism as an artificial construct and multilingualism as a natural social condition as outlined in the theory of Yasemina Yildiz and Till Dembeck. In the analysis of the internal plane of the text, the article relies on the concept of manifest, latent, and excluded multilingualism, systematically elaborated by Natalia Blum-Barth, who, like Immacolata Amode, sees multilingualism as intra-textual.

Keywords

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META-MULTILINGUALISM; LITERARY MULTILINGUALISM; IRENA BREŽNÁ; ELKE STURM-TRIGONAKIS; YASEMIN YILDIZ; NATALIA BLUM-BARTH

• Publisher: Institute of Slovak Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)
• Year: 2024
• Volume: 71
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 138 – 152

Contributors

author

Schwarzbacher Adriana

• Katedra germanistiky, nederlandistiky a škandinavistiky, Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Komenského, Gondova 2, 811 09 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

• https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6183-8825

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/slovlit.2024.71.2.5