Title:
Languages and the First World War: Communicating in a Transnational War edited by Julian Walker, Christophe Declercq.
Palgrave Studies in Languages at War
Palgrave Studies in Languages at War
Main Entry:
Walker, Julian. editor.
Declercq, Christophe. editor.
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Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
Publication Date:
2016.
Publication Place:
London :
ISBN:
9781137550309
Subject:
Linguistics.
Sociolinguistics.
Linguistics.
Sociolinguistics.
Series:
Palgrave Studies in Languages at War
Palgrave Studies in Languages at War
Contents:
PART I: LANGUAGE AT THE FRONT -- Chapter 1:‘The….“parlez” is not going on very well “avec moi.” Learning and using “trench French” on the Western Front’ -- Chapter 2: “We did not speak a common language”: African soldiers and communication in the French Army, 1914-18 -- Chapter 3: Habsburg Languages at War: “The linguistic confusion at the tower of Babel couldn't have been much worse” -- Chapter 4: Fritz and Tommy: Across the Barbed Wire -- Chapter 5: Caught in the crossfire; interpreters during the First World War -- PART II: WRITING HOME -- Chapter 6: Poetry, parables and codes: translating the letters of Indian soldiers -- Chapter 7: “Dear Mother, I am very sorry I cannot write to you in Welsh...” - Censorship and the Welsh language in the First World War -- Chapter 8: Sociolinguistic aspects of Italian war propaganda: Literacy, dialects and popular speech in the Italian trench journal L’Astico -- Chapter 9: Belgium and the semantic flux of Flemish, French and Flemings -- PART III: THE HOME FRONT -- Chapter 10: Malta in the First World War: Demon Kaiser or Colonizer? -- Chapter 11: From Hatred to Hybridisation: the German Language in Occupied France, 1914-1918 -- Chapter 12: Persuasion vs. Deception: The Connotative Shifts of “Propaganda” and Their Critical Implications -- Chapter 13: Linguistic syncretism as a marker of ethnic purity? Jeroom Leuridan on language developments among Flemish soldiers during the First World War -- PART IV: COLLECTING CONFLICT WORDS -- Chapter 14: English Words in War-Time: Andrew Clark and living language history 1914-18 -- Chapter 15: ‘Extraordinary Cheeriness and Good Will’: The Uses and Documentation of First World War Slang. .
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