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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Marco, Jorge

Titel

'An army of mutes in disguise' languages and transnational resistance in France during the Second World War

Ist Teil von

• Language and intercultural communication, 2021-09, Vol.21 (5), p.698-710

Ort / Verlag

Abingdon: Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Taylor & Francis

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The aim of this article, which uses the resistance in France as a case study, is to study the role of languages in irregular armed groups with great ethnic and linguistic diversity. France was the country where the role of foreigners in confronting the Nazi occupation was the most diverse and intense during WWII. In this linguistic and ethnic melting-pot, organizing the Resistance was hugely difficult. This article analyses the different ways in which foreign members of the Resistance in France carried out underground work, overcame language barriers, and managed multilingualism.