Translating lives : living with two languages and cultures / edited by Mary Besemeres & Anna Wierzbicka.
Material type: TextPublication details: St Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, c2007.Description: xxiv, 181 p. ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780702236037 (pbk.)
- Living with two languages and cultures [Portion of title]
- 306.440994 22 B5546 2007
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Includes index.
Bibliography: p. [167]-173.
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.
Although Australia prides itself on being multicultural, many Australians have little awareness of what it means to live in two cultures at once, and of how much there is to learn about other cultural perspectives.
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