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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

dialect1 | dominance | language and culture | theater | translation

Language as a subject

German, High Allemanic | German, Swiss

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.