Words and the First World War: Language, Memory, Vocabulary Contributor(s): Walker, Julian (Author) |
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ISBN: 1350001937 ISBN-13: 9781350001930 Publisher: Continnuum-3PL OUR PRICE: $85.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2017 |
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BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Lexicography |
Physical Information: 0.94" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.39 lbs) 418 pages |
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Publisher Description: 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. - 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 'Languages of the front' became linguistic souvenirs of the war, abandoned by soldiers but taken up by academics, memoir writers and commentators, leaving an indelible mark on the words we use even today. |
Contributor Bio(s): Walker, Julian: - Julian Walker is a writer, researcher, artist and educator. He is an Honorary Research Associate at University College, London, UK. He is the co-author of Languages and the First World War: Communicating in a Transnational War (2016), the author of The Roar of the Crowd (2016) and Trench Talk (2012) among many others. His website is www.julianwalker.net |