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Writing a war of words : Andrew Clark and the search for meaning in World War One / Lynda Mugglestone

First edition.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021

1 online resource (368 pages) : illustrations (black and white).

Englisch

This edition also issued in print: 2021. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 6, 2021)

Erscheint auch als: (Druck-Ausgabe)

Erscheint auch als: Writing a war of words / Mugglestone, Lynda [GNDNR:1023994488] (Druck-Ausgabe)

978-0-19-191304-4 (ebook)

978-0-19-887015-9 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 1286889372     

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Resolving-System (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1093/oso/9780198870159.001.0001

HF 175      Ähnliche Literatur

306.44221009041

Basisklassifikation: 18.04 (Englische Sprache) ; 17.15 (Historische Linguistik)

* Clark, Andrew [1856-1922] ; Erster Weltkrieg ; Englisch ; Sprachentwicklung      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Clark, Andrew -- 1856-1922 ; English language -- Social aspects -- History -- 20th century ; World War, 1914-1918 -- Language ; World War, 1914-1918 -- Social aspects

Clark, Andrew ; English language ; Language and languages ; Social aspects ; History

Writing a 'War of Words' is an exploration of the war-time quest by Andrew Clark - a writer, historian, and volunteer on the first edition of the 'Oxford English Dictionary' - to document changes in the English language from the start of the First World War up to 1919. Clark's unique series of lexical scrapbooks, replete with clippings, annotations, and real-time definitions, reveals a desire to put living language history to the fore, and to create a record of often fleeting popular use. The rise of trench warfare, the Zeppelinophobia of total war, and descriptions of shellshock (and raid shock on the Home Front) all drew his attentive gaze. The archive includes examples from a range of sources, such as advertising, newspapers, and letters from the Front, as well as documenting social issues such as the shifting forms of representation as women 'did their bit' on the Home Front.