Global Languages in the Time of the Opium Wars: The Lost Idioms of Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies
Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies (2008) embarks the reader on a linguistic adventure to explore the languages and idioms which were in use at the time of the First Opium War in South Asia (1839-1842). The novel revives two idiolects which are now extinct, Laskari and the Anglo-Indian idiom, to show tha...
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| Langue: | Anglais |
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2021
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| Accès en ligne: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |