Languages and the Military
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Languages and the Military

Alliances, Occupation and Peace Building

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Languages and the Military

Alliances, Occupation and Peace Building

About this book

Through detailed case studies ranging from the 18th century until today, this book explores the role of foreign languages in military alliances, in occupation and in peace building. It brings together academic researchers and practitioners from the museum and interpreting worlds and the military.

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Yes, you can access Languages and the Military by H. Footitt, M. Kelly, H. Footitt,M. Kelly in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Sociolinguistics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. List of Tables and Figure
  8. Preface
  9. Notes on Contributors
  10. Introduction: Languages and the Military: Alliances, Occupation and Peace Building
  11. 1 One Army, Many Languages: Foreign Troops and Linguistic Diversity in the Eighteenth-Century French Military
  12. 2 'Amidst Clamour and Confusion': Civilian and Military Linguists at War in the Franco-Irish Campaigns against Britain (1792–1804)
  13. 3 Fighting Together: Language Issues in the Military Coordination of First World War Allied Coalition Warfare
  14. 4 Languages at War: a UK Ministry of Defence Perspective
  15. 5 The Language Policy of the Italian Army in the Occupied Slovenian Territories, 1915–17
  16. 6 Mediating for the Third Reich: On Military Translation Cultures in World War II in Northern Finland
  17. 7 When Bosnia was a Commonwealth Country: British Forces and their Interpreters in Republika Srpska, 1995–2007
  18. 8 A Bilingual Officer Remembers Korea: a Closer Look at Untrained Interpreters in the Korean War
  19. 9 Victims of War: Refugees' First Contacts with the British in the Second World War
  20. 10 Jailtacht: the Irish Language and the Conflict in Northern Ireland
  21. 11 The AIIC Project to Help Interpreters in Conflict Areas
  22. 12 Learning the Language of 'The Other' in Conflict-Ridden Cyprus: Exploring Barriers and Possibilities
  23. 13 Resolving Conflict via English: the British Council's Peacekeeping English Project
  24. 14 Did Serbo-Croat Die with Yugoslavia? A Different View of Language and Identity in Bosnia-Herzegovina
  25. 15 Exhibiting the 'Foreign' in a National Museum: Imperial War Museum London and Languages at War
  26. Conclusion: Communication, Identity and Representation Through Languages in War
  27. Index