Words and the First World War : language, memory, vocabulary /

""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 Wa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Walker, Julian, 1954- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.
Temas:
1914-1918
World War, 1914-1918 > Language.
Language and languages > Political aspects.
Translating and interpreting > Political aspects.
Languages in contact > Political aspects.
Langage et langues > Aspect politique.
Langues en contact > Aspect politique.
Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918 > Langage.
Sociolinguistics.
Historical & comparative linguistics.
HISTORY > Europe > Western.
Language and languages
Language and languages > Political aspects
Translating and interpreting > Political aspects
Englisch
Erinnerung
Sprache
Weltkrieg > 1914-1918
Wortschatz
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • 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

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