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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| Idioma: | Inglês |
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SEPC (Société d’études des pays du Commonwealth)
2011
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| Accés en línia: | https://doi.org/10.4000/ces.7875 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13089/dt0p https://journals.openedition.org/ces/7875 |
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