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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Languages and the First World War: Communicating in a Transnational War978-1-137-55030-9Series ISSN 2947-5902 Series E-ISSN 2947-5910

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‘We did not speak a common language’ficial French propaganda put it during the war, referring directly to soldiers from the colonies, ‘knowing better our language, the sentiments which unite us will only be strengthened’.. Language, then, played a key role both in practical terms, communicating in the ranks, and on a broader ideologic

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Fritz and Tommyxploration of two distinct ‘trench languages’. In writing this essay, we draw upon our work exploring the shared experience of the British and German troops on the Western Front (Doyle and Schäfer 2015).

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Poetry, Parables and Codes operated at regimental or local level. The job of the office was thus less the suppression of material, and rather the monitoring of states of mind and morale — that of the Indian troops at the front (it was the first time that Indian regiments had been deployed in Europe), and that of public opini

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From Hatred to Hybridization show a fascination with the occupier which encourages language learning. With time, German terminology is assimilated, while there emerges a hybridized ‘Franco-German’. These phenomena reflect the promiscuity, rapprochements and compromises imposed by four years of military occupation. That said, t