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Faithful Imitator, Legitimate Speaker, Playful Creator and Dialogical Communicator: Shift in English Learners' Identity Prototypes
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Gao, Yihong – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2014
This paper attempts to conceptualize identity prototypes regarding model L2 learners/users of English over the past 50 years, as embedded in research discourses. For a long time, the ideal learner was a "faithful imitator" whose L2 use and cultural conduct were strictly modeled on the native speaker (NS). With postcolonial changes around…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Self Concept, Language Usage
Staging "Swissness": Inter- and Intracultural Theatre Translation
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Wilkinson, Jane – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2005
This paper examines the choice to translate plays from "Hochdeutsch" (the standard form of the German language) into local dialect in German-speaking Switzerland. It first looks at the creative process of translating for the amateur stage and then at the reasons behind the choice to translate. It argues that this choice reflects a desire…
Descriptors: Creativity, Foreign Countries, German, Translation