The language of the hybrid: Verbal manifestations of identity and alterity in G. B. Shaw’s John Bull’s Other Island

This paper presents the discursive construction of ethnic identities in the verbal behaviour of the three major characters of G. B. Shaw’s John Bull’s Other Island (1904): the English protagonist Thomas Broadbent, and two ethnic Irish characters, Larry Doyle and Father Keegan. The play is approached...

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Main Author: Zsuzsanna Ajtony
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti 2012-01-01
Series:Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics
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Online Access:http://bwpl.unibuc.ro/index.pl/the_language_of_the_hybrid_verbal_manifestations_of_identity_and_alterity_in_g._b._shaws_john_bulls_other_island