Words and the First World War : language, memory, vocabulary /: language, memory, vocabulary. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• 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.