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Writing a war of words : Andrew Clark and the search for meaning in world war one / Lynda Mugglestone.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mugglestone, Lynda, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1914-1918--Social aspects.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- World War, 1914-1918--Language.
- Clark, Andrew, 1856-1922.
- Clark, Andrew.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (362 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- Writing a War of Words is the first investigation of a valuable archive of war-time notebooks documenting changes to the English language on the Home Front. Using unconventional sources, it explores the effect of war on the language of ordinary people, and reflects on the role of language as an interdisciplinary lens on history.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Writing a War of Words: Andrew Clark and the Search for Meaning in World War One
- Copyright
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction: Writing a War of Words
- The treasures of time
- A wealth of words
- 1: Word-hoard: From History to Historical Principles
- Making a break
- Seizing the moment
- Minuteness: On being Aubrey in World War One
- 2: Reading into Words
- Critical reading in a fettered press
- The register of words
- Word-pictures
- Advertising and the art of appropriation
- 3: 'Doing One's Bit': From Voluntary Endeavour to Conscription
- Voluntary principles: Language, conflict, and the volunteer
- Stigma and stereotype: Writing the non-fighter
- Derby Men, conscripts, and the pull of conscience
- 4: The Langscape of War
- Movement and stasis: The rise of trench warfare
- Being in the trenches
- Doing war
- Writing sound and mud
- 5: Border Crossings
- Diversity and the national tongue
- Allied diction: Russian and French
- Indian English
- Writing the enemy
- Slurs, ethnonyms, and over-lexicalization
- 6: English in a Time of Total War
- War and warfare at home: From Zeppelinophobia to All Clear
- Reciprocity, reprisal, and response
- 7: Writing the Women's Part
- The domestic discourse of war
- Claiming the right to serve
- The social space of meaning
- 8: Written on the Body
- 'Being in the wars': Frostbite and trench foot
- Having the wrong 'pals': Trench fever and trench plagues
- 'Mental cases': Writing a war of nerves
- From raid shock to discolouration: Writing the body on the Home Front
- 9: Last Words
- Reconstruction and return
- Memory and the language of memorialization
- Retrospectives
- Notes
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-191304-9
- 0-19-264278-2
- OCLC:
- 1281960692
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