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1 online resource (xiv, 402 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 LANGUAGE, DIALECTAND THE NEED TO COMMUNICATE -- Slang, dialect and status -- The need to communicate -- Managing languages -- 2 LANGUAGE AT THE FRONT -- Words: sources and trajectories -- Collecting words -- Fighting over words -- Control and censorship -- Avoidance -- Wordplay -- Humour -- Swearing and the documentation of extreme speech |
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Transcribing the sound of warKilling, dying, and the destruction of the body -- Failure -- 3 US AND THEM -- Race -- Naming the enemy -- How others speak -- Naming our side -- Sex and gender -- Place -- 4 THE HOME FRONT -- Commerce and war language -- DORA and the control of words -- Outrage and the enemy within -- Women and children -- The family -- 5 OWNING THE LANGUAGE -- Class -- Our language -- 6 LETTING GO -- Losing the language of war -- The sacred and the remembered: places and names -- Silence -- Post-war study -- Then and now |
| 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 |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
World War, 1914-1918 -- Language.
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World War (1914-1918) |
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Language and languages -- Political aspects.
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Language and languages -- Political aspects. |
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Translating and interpreting -- Political aspects.
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Translating and interpreting -- Political aspects. |
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Translating and interpreting. |
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Languages in contact -- Political aspects.
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Sociolinguistics. |
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Historical & comparative linguistics. |
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Languages in contact. |
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western. |
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Language and languages. |
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Englisch. |
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Erinnerung. |
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Sprache. |
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Weltkrieg 1914-1918. |
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Wortschatz. |
| Chronological Term |
1914-1918 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Walker, Julian, 1954- Words and the First World War. London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017 1350001929 9781350001923 (OCoLC)964329602 |
| ISBN |
9781350012745 (electronic book) |
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1350012742 (electronic book) |
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1350001953 (electronic book) |
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9781350001954 (PDF) |
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9781350001947 (online) |
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1350001945 |
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9781350001930 (hardcover) |
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9781350001923 (paperback) |
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1350001929 (print) |
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1350001937 (print) |
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