ISBN:
9781137550293
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (286 p)
Series Statement:
Palgrave Studies in Languages at War
Parallel Title:
Print version Walker, Julian Languages and the First World War: Communicating in a Transnational War
DDC:
306.4409
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Meetings between Languages -- Part I Languages at the Front -- 1 'The … "parlez" is not going on very well "avec moi"': Learning and Using 'Trench French' on the Western Front -- 2 'We did not speak a common language': African Soldiers and Communication in the French Army, 1914-1918 -- 3 Habsburg Languages at War: 'The linguistic confusion at the tower of Babel couldn't have been much worse' -- 4 Fritz and Tommy: Across the Barbed Wire
Abstract:
5 Caught in the Crossfire: Interpreters during the First World War -- Part II Writing Home -- 6 Poetry, Parables and Codes: Translating the Letters of Indian Soldiers -- 7 'Dear Mother, I am very sorry I cannot write to you in Welsh ...': Censorship and the Welsh Language in the First World War -- 8 Sociolinguistic Aspects of Italian War Propaganda: Literacy, Dialects and Popular Speech in the Italian Trench Journal L'Astico -- 9 Belgium and the Semantic Flux of Flemish, French and Flemings -- Part III The Home Front -- 10 Malta in the First World War: Demon Kaiser or Colonizer?
Abstract:
11 From Hatred to Hybridization: The German Language in Occupied France, 1914-1918 -- 12 Persuasion vs. Deception: The Connotative Shifts of 'Propaganda' and their Critical Implications -- 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 -- 14 English Words in War-Time: Andrew Clark and Living Language History, 1914-1918 -- 15 'Extraordinary cheeriness and good will': The Uses and Documentation of First World War Slang -- Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
