| 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.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 | http://hdl.handle.net/10566/5363 | |
| 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.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 |
