THE TRANSLATIONAL RECONFIGURATION OF IDIOLECT: HYBRIDITY AND CULTURAL MEANING IN MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN
This paper uses a corpus-based methodology to analyse language variation, idiolect and cultural identity in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children (1981). It aims to identify patterns of multilingualism, code-switching and lexical innovation in the compiled corpus, paying special attention to Hindi-Urdu insertions and hy...