English Literature A-Level
Language and Culture
What Language and Culture means in English Literature A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Language and Culture
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The poem's inventive hybrid English, including Punjabi-inflected syntax, British slang and newly made compounds, challenges the idea of one fixed English language.
Topics that use Language and Culture
- Component 3: Poetry – Section A: Post-2000 Poetry – Poems of the Decade: An Anthology of the Forward Books of Poetry 2002–2011 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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- Alienation
- Birth and Creation
- Bodily Autonomy
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- Childhood and Memory
- Cultural contrast and displacement
- Dehumanisation and the 'Other'
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