ID: 8676 - Giovanna Covi - Trento
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| Title: Wordmaps for Chaos: A New Geographism | Subtitle: |
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| Date: Issued | in/on: 1999 |
| Language: English | |
| Rights: Macmillan Press, GB |
| Relation: IsPartOf | Qualifier: T.J. Cribb, ed., Imagined Commonwealths |
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| Description: argues for a context-based theory in order to give international circulation to texts produced in local idioms; what the Author calls new geographism is aimed at fostering the survival of the whole range of Englishes. |
| Subjects: Cultural Practices | Keywords: geography | Query Subject+Keyword: (Cultural Practices, geography) |
| Comment: Despite his simplistic critique of Deconstruction, Gurr provides a stimulating argument for intercultural communication across the world and encouragement for scholars to consider text footnoting a political rather than a merely philological task. |
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