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Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices
The world has been growing more globalised, people have been moving and absorbing different cultu... more The world has been growing more globalised, people have been moving and absorbing different cultural peculiarities. Now intercultural perspective might seem insufficient to describe the extent to which local cultures and identities are linked globally. As a result, language contact and communication between and across cultures have been changing. The present paper aims at studying modern RussianAmerican fiction from intercultural and transcultural perspectives emphasizing the translingual features and transcultural changes. The paper discusses the phenomenon of creative translingualism, which means writing in one or two languages that are not the native tongues. Contemporary American literature may be proud of its modern writers of Russian and Soviet descent: Olga Grushin, Sana Krasikov, Lara Vapnyar, Anya Ulinich, Irina Reyn. All the authors changed their country of birth and moved to the USA and as a result, they chose English as the language of their creative writings. However, t...
The Humanities And Social Studies In The Far East
The article describes the features of Olga Grushin’s literary multilingualism. Novels by the Russ... more The article describes the features of Olga Grushin’s literary multilingualism. Novels by the Russian Anglophone writer (“The Dream Life of Sukhanov”, 2005; “The Line”, 2010; “Forty Rooms”, 2016; “The Charmed Wife”, 2021) have been interesting not only to her readers but to many linguists and literary scholars and critics. The novels represent a mix of two cultures, two language systems and two literary traditions. The writer’s individual style has been formed due to her transcultural experience with Russian culture incorporated into the English of the text.
Philological Sciences. Scientific Essays of Higher Education, 2020
The article discusses the literary creative works of the Russian-American author Olga Grushin in ... more The article discusses the literary creative works of the Russian-American author Olga Grushin in the framework of translingual and transcultural transformations typical of this author and her language. The author’s individual style has been influenced by two cultures — Russian, the home culture in which the author has grown and which she absorbed, and American culture in which Olga Grushin succeeded as a writer and whose language she uses in her creative writings. The goal of our research is to analyze linguistic features of Grushin’s short essays and book reviews written for international magazines. The research revealed that translingual and transcultural changes that the author has undergone are reflected not only in her fiction but also in other genres where the author’s creativity and imagination might be somewhat restricted. Grushin’s translingualism is evident on the lexical level, embracing words borrowed from Russian. The author introduces them into her English text in many...
Russian Journal of Linguistics, 2020
Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices, 2019
The present research is conducted within the frameworks of language contacts theory, intercultura... more The present research is conducted within the frameworks of language contacts theory, intercultural communication theory, text linguistics and linguacontactology. Creative translingualism is the object of the research. Linguacreative characteristics of translingual fiction are the subject of the research. Fiction written by Russian and Chinese authors in English (Olga Grushin, Irina Reyn, Lara Vapnyar, Anya Ulinich, Gish Jen, Ha Jin, Amy Tan, Jade Snow Wong, Frank Chin, etc.) has served as the material for the analysis. Within the scope of the present research the similarities and differences of linguacreativity in the fiction written by authors belonging to unrelated linguacultures were determined. The range of native culture description means used by translingual writers is very diverse: loan-words, code switching and code mixing, native literature and songs allusions, contaminated speech, usage of English lexical units to transmit significant for native culture events (by attribut...
Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices
The world has been growing more globalised, people have been moving and absorbing different cultu... more The world has been growing more globalised, people have been moving and absorbing different cultural peculiarities. Now intercultural perspective might seem insufficient to describe the extent to which local cultures and identities are linked globally. As a result, language contact and communication between and across cultures have been changing. The present paper aims at studying modern RussianAmerican fiction from intercultural and transcultural perspectives emphasizing the translingual features and transcultural changes. The paper discusses the phenomenon of creative translingualism, which means writing in one or two languages that are not the native tongues. Contemporary American literature may be proud of its modern writers of Russian and Soviet descent: Olga Grushin, Sana Krasikov, Lara Vapnyar, Anya Ulinich, Irina Reyn. All the authors changed their country of birth and moved to the USA and as a result, they chose English as the language of their creative writings. However, t...
The Humanities And Social Studies In The Far East
The article describes the features of Olga Grushin’s literary multilingualism. Novels by the Russ... more The article describes the features of Olga Grushin’s literary multilingualism. Novels by the Russian Anglophone writer (“The Dream Life of Sukhanov”, 2005; “The Line”, 2010; “Forty Rooms”, 2016; “The Charmed Wife”, 2021) have been interesting not only to her readers but to many linguists and literary scholars and critics. The novels represent a mix of two cultures, two language systems and two literary traditions. The writer’s individual style has been formed due to her transcultural experience with Russian culture incorporated into the English of the text.
Philological Sciences. Scientific Essays of Higher Education, 2020
The article discusses the literary creative works of the Russian-American author Olga Grushin in ... more The article discusses the literary creative works of the Russian-American author Olga Grushin in the framework of translingual and transcultural transformations typical of this author and her language. The author’s individual style has been influenced by two cultures — Russian, the home culture in which the author has grown and which she absorbed, and American culture in which Olga Grushin succeeded as a writer and whose language she uses in her creative writings. The goal of our research is to analyze linguistic features of Grushin’s short essays and book reviews written for international magazines. The research revealed that translingual and transcultural changes that the author has undergone are reflected not only in her fiction but also in other genres where the author’s creativity and imagination might be somewhat restricted. Grushin’s translingualism is evident on the lexical level, embracing words borrowed from Russian. The author introduces them into her English text in many...
Russian Journal of Linguistics, 2020
Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices, 2019
The present research is conducted within the frameworks of language contacts theory, intercultura... more The present research is conducted within the frameworks of language contacts theory, intercultural communication theory, text linguistics and linguacontactology. Creative translingualism is the object of the research. Linguacreative characteristics of translingual fiction are the subject of the research. Fiction written by Russian and Chinese authors in English (Olga Grushin, Irina Reyn, Lara Vapnyar, Anya Ulinich, Gish Jen, Ha Jin, Amy Tan, Jade Snow Wong, Frank Chin, etc.) has served as the material for the analysis. Within the scope of the present research the similarities and differences of linguacreativity in the fiction written by authors belonging to unrelated linguacultures were determined. The range of native culture description means used by translingual writers is very diverse: loan-words, code switching and code mixing, native literature and songs allusions, contaminated speech, usage of English lexical units to transmit significant for native culture events (by attribut...