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Languages and the First World War [electronic resource] : Representation and Memory / edited by Christophe Declercq and Julian Walker.

9781137550361 (electronic book)
1137550368 (electronic book)
9781137550354

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

English

1 online resource (xii, 256 pages) : illustrations.

PE3727.S7 L36 2016eb

940.3/1

With several terms from the First World War still present in modern speech, Languages and the First World War presents over 30 essays by international academics investigating the linguistic aspects of the 1914-18 conflict. The first of the two volumes covers language change and documentation during the period of the war, while the second examines the representation and the memory of the war. Communicating in a Transnational War examines languages at the front, including the subject of interpretation, translation and parallels between languages; communication with the home front; propaganda and language manipulation; and recording language during the war. Representation and Memory examines historiographical issues; the nature of representing the war in letters and diaries; the documentation of language change; the language of representing the war in reportage and literature; and the language of remembering the war. Covered in the process are slang, censorship, soldiers' phrasebooks, code-switching, borrowing terms, the problems facing multilingual armies, and gendered language.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Palgrave studies in languages at war.

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