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020			_a9781526163820
028			_a: International Book Distributors _b: Flat No. 17, Prakash Apartment, 4405/2, 5 Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New delhi _c: 123034 _d: 22/07/2026
082			_a418.02 GIL
100			_aGilmour, Rachael.
245			_aBad English _b: Literature, Multilingualism, and the Politics of Language in Contemporary Britain. _c/ Rachael Gilmour.
260			_a, Manchester _b: Manchester University Press _c, 2020.
300			_axi, 278p. _c: 24cm.
365			_b2284
520			_aBad English investigates the impact of increasing language diversity, precipitated by migration, globalisation, and new forms of communication, in transforming contemporary literature in Britain. Considering writers whose work engages experimentally, playfully, and ambivalently with English’s power, while exploring what it means to move between forms of language, it makes the case for literature as the pre-eminent medium to probe the terms of linguistic belonging, and for a diverse and growing field of writing in Britain defined by its inside/outside relationship to English in its institutionalised forms. Bad English offers innovative readings of writers including James Kelman, Tom Leonard, Suhayl Saadi, Raman Mundair, Daljit Nagra, Xiaolu Guo, Leila Aboulela, Brian Chikwava, and Caroline Bergvall. Drawing on insights from applied linguistics and translation studies as well as literary scholarship, it will appeal to students and academics across these disciplines.
650			_aLiterature
650			_aMultilingualism
650			_aPolitics of Language
700			_aRachael Gilmour.
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