Titlebook: Languages and the First World War: Communicating in a Transnational War; Julian Walker (Independent educator, artist and wr Book 2016 The

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‘The … “parlez” is not going on very well “avec moi”’of the Expeditionary Force’ in France. With little combative action to report on to those eager for news from the front, Phillips’s article ‘Mr Atkins and his New Friends’ focused on the fascination that French life held for the regular soldiers of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), particularly

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Habsburg Languages at War speak German. And they are not even able to communicate with each other’ (Velburg 1930: 126).. Here, a German officer refers to an Austrian non-commissioned officer (NCO) while reflecting his own experience fighting at the front together with Austro-Hungarian allies. When reading Velburg’s story it

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Caught in the Crossfire04: xiv; Gilbert 1983: 423). With over thirty-two countries involved, the war was inherently multilingual, which meant that interpreters and other language coordination services were essential. Armed conflict requires interpreters for intelligence services, for the coordination of troops if the sold

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Poetry, Parables and Codess and above all multilingual organization, with at least seven languages spoken among its troops. Censoring the letters written to and from these soldiers thus represented a task which was enormous both linguistically, and in the sheer volume of letters sent every week — from the families in India t

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‘Dear Mother, I am very sorry I cannot write to you in Welsh …’refi, Ceredigion, in December 1915, is an example of how Welsh-speaking soldiers were often forbidden to write home in their mother tongue during the First World War. However, there was no wholesale ban on the use of the language in correspondence, and this paper will examine Welsh-speaking soldiers

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Sociolinguistic Aspects of Italian War Propagandaraphernalia, or as collectors’ items coveted by many a bibliophile (Pegum 2007).. In the wake of Isnenghi’s work (1977) on the ideological implications of Italian trench journalism and, above all, Audoin-Rouzeau’s ground-breaking study (1986), which uses the vast corpus of French trench journals as

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Belgium and the Semantic Flux of Flemish, French and Flemingsin Africa from the 1880s onwards (Bandeira Jerónimo and Costa Pinto 2015; Poddar, Patke and Jensen 2008). However, in Britain the disgraceful and inhumane rule of Belgium over its colonies was exposed in reports by Roger Casement and Edmund Dene Morel. As a consequence relations between Britain and