Words and the First World War : language, memory, vocabulary / Julian Walker.
Walker, Julian, 1954-
2017
PE3727.S7 W35 2017eb
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Title Words and the First World War : language, memory, vocabulary / Julian Walker.
Author Walker, Julian, 1954-
ISBN 9781350012745 (electronic book)
1350012742 (electronic book)
9781350001923
1350001929
9781350001930
1350001937
9781350001954
1350001953
Publication Details London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xiv, 402 pages)
Call Number PE3727.S7 W35 2017eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 940.3/1
Summary ""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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Language, dialect and the need to communicate
Language at the front
Us and them
Home front
Owning the language
Letting go.

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