The importance of unimportant language
| dc.contributor.author | Blommaert, Jan | |
| dc.contributor.author | Varis, Piia | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-11-05T13:16:43Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-11-05T13:16:43Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
| dc.description.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). | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Blommaert, J., & Varis, P. (2015). The importance of unimportant language. Multilingual Margins, 2(1):4-9 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.14426/mm.v2i1.30 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10566/5363 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | University of the Western Cape | en_US |
| dc.subject | World War I | en_US |
| dc.subject | Banality | en_US |
| dc.subject | Importance of communication | en_US |
| dc.subject | Writing letters | en_US |
| dc.subject | Soldiers of the great war | en_US |
| dc.title | The importance of unimportant language | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |