To Paint and Die in Arabic: Code-Switching in Rabih Alameddine&apos;s <i>Koolaids: The Art of War</i>

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[1] Alameddine, Rabih (1998). Koolaids: The Art of War. New York: Picador.

[2] Albirini, Abdulkafi (2016). Modern Arabic Sociolinguistics: Diglossia, Variation, Codeswitching, Attitudes and Identity. New York: Routledge.

[3] Ashcroft, Bill (2014). Bridging the Silence: Inner Translation and the Metonymic Gap. In Language and Translation in Postcolonial Literatures: Multilingual Contexts, Translational Texts, ed. Simona Bertacco, 17-31. New York: Routledge.

[4] Bacha, Nahla N. and Rima Bahous (2011). Foreign Language Education in Lebanon: A Context of Cultural and Curricular Complexities. Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2(6), 1320-1328.

[5] Backus, Ad and Margreet Dorleijn (2012). Loan Translations versus Code-switching. In The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Codeswitching, eds. Barbara Bullock and Almeida Jacqueline Toribio, 75-94. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511576331.006.

[6] Besemeres, Mary (2002). Translating One's Self: Language and Selfhood in Cross-cultural Autobiography, vol. 3. Bern: Peter Lang.

[7] Besemeres, Mary (2006). Language and Emotional Experience: The Voice of Translingual Memoir. In Bilingual Minds: Emotional Experience, Expression and Representation, ed. Aneta Pavlenko, 34-58. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.

[8] Beukeboom, Camiel J. and Gün R. Semin (2006). How Mood Turns on Language. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 42(5), 553-566.

[9] Carbajal, Alberto Fernández (2017). The Druzification of History: Queering Time, Place, and Faith in Diasporic Fiction by Rabih Alameddine. Études anglaises: Revue du monde anglophone, 70(1), 78-94.

[10] Chen, Stephen H., Morgan Kennedy and Qing Zhou (2012). Parents' Expression and Discussion of Emotion in the Multilingual Family: Does Language Matter? Perspectives on Psychological Science, 7(4), 365-383.

[11] Creswell, Robyn (2016). Is Arabic Untranslatable? Public Culture, 28(3), 447-456.

[12] Darling, Nancy and Laurence Steinberg (1993). Parenting Style as Context: An Integrative Model. Psychological Bulletin, 113(3), 487-496.

[13] Dewaele, Jean-Marc (2010). “Christ Fucking Shit Merde!” Language Preferences for Swearing among Maximally Proficient Multilinguals. Sociolinguistic Studies, 3(3), 595-614.

[14] Dewaele, Jean-Marc (2013). Multilingualism and Emotions. In The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics, ed. Carol A. Chapelle, 1-7. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell. doi:10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal0795.

[15] Dewaele, Jean-Marc and Aneta Pavlenko (2002). Emotion Vocabulary in Interlanguage. Language Learning: A Journal of Research in Language Studies, 52(2), 263-322.

[16] Gerhards, Jürgen (2014). Transnational Linguistic Capital: Explaining English Proficiency in 27 European Countries. International Sociology, 29(1), 56–74.

[17] Gumperz, John J. (1982). Discourse Strategies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

[18] Hanks, Hilary (1997). Teaching Language and Power. In Encyclopedia of Language and Education. Vol. 1. Language Policy and Political Issues in Education, eds. Ruth Wodak and David Corson, 241-251. Dordrecht: Kluwer.

[19] Hanna, Kifah (2017). Hudā Barakāt: Queer Literature—of Arabic. Journal of World Literature, 2(3), 377-393.

[20] Hassan, Dina (2018). Multilingualism in Literature: A Socio-pragmatic Reading of Leila Aboulela's The Translator (1999) and Ahdaf Soueif's The Map of Love (1999). Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 1-20. doi:10.1515/multi-2017-0005.

[21] Hassan, Waïl S. (2006). Agency and Translational Literature: Ahdaf Soueif's “The Map of Love.” PMLA, 121(3), 753-768.

[22] Hout, Syrine (2012). Post-War Anglophone Lebanese Fiction: Home Matters in the Diaspora. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

[23] Hutcheon, Linda (1988). A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction. New York, NY: Routledge.

[24] Irele, Abiola (2001). The African Imagination: Literature in Africa and the Black Diaspora. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

[25] Kellman, Steven G. (2000). The Translingual Imagination. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

[26] Kheirzadeh, Shiela and Mohammadreza Hajiabed (2016). Differential Language Functioning of Monolinguals and Bilinguals on Positive–Negative Emotional Expression. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 45(1), 55–69.

[27] Kolehmainen, Leena and Janne Skaffari (2016). Multilingual Practices in Contemporary and Historical Contexts: Interfaces between Code-switching and Translation. Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 35(2), 123–135.

[28] Mauss, Iris B., Silvia A. Bunge and James J. Gross (2008). Culture and Automatic Emotion Regulation. In Regulating Emotions: Culture, Social Necessity, and Biological Inheritance, eds. Marie Vandekerckhove, Christian von Scheve, Sven Ismer, Susanne Jung and Stefanie Kronast, 39–60. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.

[29] McMurtray, Aaron, Erin Saito and Beau Nakamoto (2009). Language Preference and Development of Dementia among Bilingual Individuals. Hawaii Medical Journal, 68(9), 223–226.

[30] Pandey, Anjali (2016). Monolingualism and Linguistic Exhibitionism in Fiction. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.

[31] Pavlenko, Aneta (2005). Emotions and Multilingualism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

[32] Pazargadi, Leila Moayeri (2018). Unfixing the Autobiographical Subject: Fragmentation as Aesthetics and Identity in Rabih Alameddine's I, the Divine. In Arab American Aesthetics: Literature, Material Culture, Film, and Theatre, ed. Therí A. Pickens, 42–60. New York, NY: Routledge.

[33] Percillier, Michael and Catherine Paulin (2017a). A Corpus-based Investigation of World Englishes in Literature. World Englishes, 127–147. doi: 10.1111/weng.12208.

[34] Percillier, Michael and Catherine Paulin (2017b). Postcolonial Literature and World Englishes: A Corpus-based Approach of Modes of Representation of the Non-standard in Writing. International Journal of Literary Linguistics, 6(1), 1–24.

[35] Pickens, Therí (2013). Feeling Embodied and Being Displaced: A Phenomenological Exploration of Hospital Scenes in Rabih Alameddine's Fiction. MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S., 38(3), 67–85.

[36] Salaita, Steven (2007). Arab American Literary Fictions, Cultures, and Politics. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

[37] Schneider, Edgar W. (2001). Investigating Variation and Change in Written Documents. In The Handbook of Language Variation and Change, eds. Jack K. Chambers, Peter Trudgill and Natalie Schilling-Estes, 67–96. Oxford: Blackwell.

[38] Schrauf, Robert W. and Ramon Durazo-Arvizu (2006). Bilingual Autobiographical Memory and Emotion: Theory and Methods. In Bilingual Minds: Emotional Experience, Expression and Representation, ed. Aneta Pavlenko, 284–311. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.

[39] Sellin, Eric (2013). Translingual and Transcultural Patterns in Francophone Literature of the Maghreb. In Transcultural Identities in Contemporary Literature, eds. Irene Nordin, Julie Hansen and Carmen Llena, 223–243. Amsterdam: Rodopi.

[40] Singh, Deepali (2012). What's in a Name? AIDS Dementia Complex, HIV-associated Dementia, HIV-associated Neurocognitive Disorder or HIV Encephalopathy. African Journal of Psychiatry, 15(3), 172–175. doi:10.4314/ajpsy.v15i3.22.

[41] Steinberg, Laurence (1996). Beyond the Classroom: Why School Reform Has Failed and What Parents Need to Do. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster.

[42] Tabačková, Zuzana (2015). The Thousand and One Tries: Storytelling as an Art of Failure in Rabih Alameddine's Fiction. Journal of Language and Cultural Education, 3(3), 112–124.

[43] Teicholz, Tom, ed. (1993). Conversations with Jerzy Kosinski. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.

[44] Testa, Nino (2013). Written in Blood: AIDS and the Politics of Genre. PhD Thesis. Tufts University, Medford.

[45] Wray, Alison (2017). The Language of Dementia Science and the Science of Dementia Language: Linguistic Interpretations of an Interdisciplinary Research Field. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 36(1), 80–95.

[46] Yildiz, Yasemin (2012). Beyond the Mother Tongue: The Postmonolingual Condition. New York, NY: Fordham University Press.