The importance of unimportant language
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Date
2015
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University of the Western Cape
Abstract
In a recent paper, the Australian historian, Martyn Lyons (2013), reviews his attempts to study �history from below�, using what can be called grassroots writing by French and Italian soldiers of the Great War. Lyons remarks that the �First World War produced a flood of letter-writing by peasants whose literary capacity has often been underestimated� (Lyons 2013: 5).
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World War I, Banality, Importance of communication, Writing letters, Soldiers of the great war
Citation
Blommaert, J., & Varis, P. (2015). The importance of unimportant language. Multilingual Margins, 2(1):4-9