Words and the First World War : language, memory, vocabulary /: language, memory, vocabulary. (2017)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Words and the First World War : language, memory, vocabulary /: language, memory, vocabulary. (2017)
- Main Title:
- Words and the First World War : language, memory, vocabulary
- Further Information:
- Note: Julian Walker.
- Other Names:
- Walker, Julian, 1954-
- 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"" ""Transcribing the sound of war""""Killing, 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""
- Publisher Details:
- London : Bloomsbury Academic
- Publication Date:
- 2017
- Extent:
- 1 online resource
- Subjects:
- 940.3/1
Sociolinguistics
World War, 1914-1918 -- Language
Language and languages -- Political aspects
Translating and interpreting -- Political aspects
Languages in contact -- Political aspects
HISTORY / Europe / Western
Historical & comparative linguistics
Electronic books - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781350012745
1350012742
9781350001954
1350001953 - Related ISBNs:
- 9781350001923
1350001929
9781350001930
1350001937 - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 31, 2017) - Access Rights:
- Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
- Access Usage:
- Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.
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- Physical Locations:
- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.215787
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