Literary Writing and Multilingualism الكتابة الأدبية والتعدد اللغوي

Abstract

Plurilingualism constitutes a fundamental characteristic of literary writing and also constitutes an important paradigm for the description of the language effects found in literary texts. We wish to study within the framework of this article the modalities of inscription and the meaning of multilingualism in the novel: the guardian of the Shadows of Wasiny Laredj. We propose that even though the Guardian of the Shadows is written mainly in the Classical Arabic language, several clues signal to the reader that the text employs languages and levels of language other than the Classical Arabic of the text. This study proposes to identify these paralinguistic elements to arrive at a formula that is representative of this fact in the literary text. The analysis will also examine how the paradigms of plurilingualism contribute to elucidating the question of the quest for identity in the literary text.