Languages and the First World War: Representation and Memory

✍ Scribed by Christophe Declercq, Julian Walker (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2016
Tongue: English
Leaves: 262
Series: Palgrave Studies in Languages at War
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Languages and the First World War presents essays by international academics investigating the linguistic aspects of the 1914-18 conflict. A variety of topics are covered including slang, censorship, phrasebooks and influences between languages and communicating the war during and after the conflict.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-18
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Problems and Challenges of a Historical Approach....Pages 21-31
Translation, Interpretation and Mistranslation....Pages 32-39
Front Matter....Pages 41-41
‘Fake Belgium’....Pages 43-53
Out of the Trenches....Pages 54-72
Front Matter....Pages 73-73
Aussie....Pages 75-93
From Antwerp to Britain and Back Again....Pages 94-107
Language Changes in the Jewish Community in Kosovo and Metohija after the Balkan Wars (1912–1913) and the First World War (1914–1918)....Pages 108-126
Front Matter....Pages 127-127
‘Excursion into a foreign tongue’....Pages 129-139
14/1914: Jean Echenoz’s Great War, Meta-Discourse and the English Reception....Pages 140-163
The Language of Espionage....Pages 164-177
Front Matter....Pages 179-179
‘Here is our blood. When are our rights?’....Pages 181-198
The Languages of Remembrance....Pages 199-213
Wartime Citations in Ernest Weekley’s An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English (1921) and Contemporary Dictionaries....Pages 214-236
War Discourse....Pages 237-248
Back Matter....Pages 249-256

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