@article{809217,
      recid = {809217},
      author = {Walker, Julian,},
      title = {Words and the First World War : language, memory,  vocabulary /},
      publisher = {Bloomsbury Academic,},
      address = {London :},
      pages = {1 online resource (xiv, 402 pages)},
      year = {2017},
      abstract = {""The experiences could be understood only as being of  such extremity that they stood beyond written words; it was  not a failure of language, but a view that, for the  individual, language, particularly written words, and the  enormity of the experience were not matched." First World  War expert Julian Walker looks at how the conflict shaped  English and its relationship with other languages. He  considers language in relation to mediation and  authenticity, as well as the limitations and potential of  different kinds of verbal communication. Walker also  examines: - How language changed, and why changed language  was used in communications - Language used at the Front and  how the 'language of the war' was commercially exploited on  the Home Front - The relationship between language,  soldiers and class - The idea of the 'indescribability' of  the war and the linguistic codes used to convey the  experience."--Bloomsbury Publishing.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/809217},
}