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Acknowledgements
PART I: THE HISTORIAN'S PROBLEMS
1. Problems and challenges of a historical approach
2. Translation, interpretation and mistranslation: Belgian exiles and 'reformed' soldiers, their records and problems encountered by English language researchers
PART II: REPRESENTING THE PRESENT
3. 'Fake Belgium' Linguistic issues in the diary of Father Achiel Van Walleghem (1914-1919)
4. Out of the Trenches: The Rhetoric of Letters from the Western Front
PART III: LANGUAGE USE AND CHANGE
5. 'Aussie': code-switching in an Australian soldiers' magazine - an overview
6. From Antwerp to Britain and back again: the language of the Belgian refugee in Britain during the First World War
7. Language Changes in the Jewish Community in Kosovo and Metohija after the Balkan Wars (1912-1913) and the First World War (1914-1918)
PART IV: LITERATURE AND REPRESENTATION
8. 'Excursion into a Foreign Language': Frederic Manning and Ford Madox Ford
9. 14 / 1914. On Jean Échenoz's Great War, meta-discourse and the English reception
10. 'The Language of Espionage: Mata Hari and the creation of the spy-courtesan'
PART V: COMMEMORATION AND MEMORY
11. ''Here is our blood. When are our rights?' Flemish Graffiti and the Great War'
12. The Languages of Remembrance: An Attempt at a Taxonomy
13. Wartime citations in Ernest Weekley's An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English (1921) and contemporary dictionaries
14. War Discourse: still talking about the First World War in Britain, 1914-2014

About the Author:

Julian Walker is a British Library educator, an artist and writer. His books on language include Discovering Words, Team Talk: Sporting Words and their Origins and Trench Talk.


Christophe Declercq is a lecturer in translation (University College London, UK and University of Antwerp, Belgium) who has been working on Belgian refugees in Britain for well over a decade. On the subject, he has spoken widely at conferences in both Britain and Belgium, has worked with the BBC and VRT (Belgian television) and manages several social media outlets.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781349715473
  • Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
  • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
  • Edition: 1st ed. 2016
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Width: 140 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1349715476
  • Publisher Date: 27 Feb 2017
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 256
  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Languages at War
  • Weight: 399 gr


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