Publications
Publication details [#43055]
Wilkinson, Jane. 2005. Staging ‘Swissness’: Inter- and Intracultural Theatre Translation. Language and Intercultural Communication 5 (1) : 72–85.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Multilingual Matters
Annotation
This article argues that the translation of plays from ‘Hochdeutsch’ in local dialects in German-speaking Switzerland, reflects the longing to promote local and national identities via language and to resist German and transnational cultural dominance.