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Who Wants Walls? An Ethnolinguistics of Insides and Outsides

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Translating Values

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This chapter brings to bear a multilingual ethnolinguistic approach to walls as barriers and boundaries. The symbolism of walls and breaking them down is investigated in light of the Berlin Wall and the way its destruction has been recuperated by ideological, religious, and diverse cultural discourses. A corpus analysis of walls reveals that the ways walls are perceived and understood changes over time. And numerous examples of the ways walls are considered as necessary and protective are used to contrast with the dominant discourse of the need to break walls down.

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    www.wortschatz.uni-leibzig.de [accessed on 30 April 2014].

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    www.gutenberg.org, for this and the following references to both the Old and New Testaments.

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  1. Departement d’Etudes Anglophones, Université de Rouen, Mont-Saint-Aignan, France

    James W. Underhill

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    Piotr Blumczynski

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    John Gillespie

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Underhill, J.W. (2016). Who Wants Walls? An Ethnolinguistics of Insides and Outsides. In: Blumczynski, P., Gillespie, J. (eds) Translating Values. Palgrave Studies in Translating and Interpreting. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54971-6_2

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