Multilingual Environments in the Great War
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Om bidragsyterne
Julian Walker is an author working on First World War language discourse, and is an Associate Lecturer at the University of the Arts London, UK.
Christophe Declercq is Senior Lecturer in Translation Studies at the Centre for Translation Studies, University College London, UK and Lecturer in Translation at KU Leuven, Belgium.
This is a fascinating treatment of the Great War as a multilingual disaster. Language here is an active agent, a forger of identities, a trigger of memories, and a prism refracting the words of war into the rhetoric of remembrance. Essential reading for those perennially intrigued by the lingering shadow of the 1914-18 conflict.
Jay Winter, Charles J. Stille Professor of History emeritus, Yale University, USA
This is an important study of a facet of the total war: language. In 1914-18 combatants mobilised language, which evolved to take account of new experiences, while some wartime words had an afterlife which long outlasted the conflict. A enlightening book, it deserves to be widely read.
Gary Sheffield, Professor of War Studies, University of Wolverhampton, UK
Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Julian Walker is an author working on First World War language discourse, and is an Associate Lecturer at the University of the Arts London, UK.
Christophe Declercq is Senior Lecturer in Translation Studies at the Centre for Translation Studies, University College London, UK and Lecturer in Translation at KU Leuven, Belgium.