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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
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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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Tables and Figure
- Preface
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: Languages and the Military: Alliances, Occupation and Peace Building
- 1 One Army, Many Languages: Foreign Troops and Linguistic Diversity in the Eighteenth-Century French Military
- 2 'Amidst Clamour and Confusion': Civilian and Military Linguists at War in the Franco-Irish Campaigns against Britain (1792–1804)
- 3 Fighting Together: Language Issues in the Military Coordination of First World War Allied Coalition Warfare
- 4 Languages at War: a UK Ministry of Defence Perspective
- 5 The Language Policy of the Italian Army in the Occupied Slovenian Territories, 1915–17
- 6 Mediating for the Third Reich: On Military Translation Cultures in World War II in Northern Finland
- 7 When Bosnia was a Commonwealth Country: British Forces and their Interpreters in Republika Srpska, 1995–2007
- 8 A Bilingual Officer Remembers Korea: a Closer Look at Untrained Interpreters in the Korean War
- 9 Victims of War: Refugees' First Contacts with the British in the Second World War
- 10 Jailtacht: the Irish Language and the Conflict in Northern Ireland
- 11 The AIIC Project to Help Interpreters in Conflict Areas
- 12 Learning the Language of 'The Other' in Conflict-Ridden Cyprus: Exploring Barriers and Possibilities
- 13 Resolving Conflict via English: the British Council's Peacekeeping English Project
- 14 Did Serbo-Croat Die with Yugoslavia? A Different View of Language and Identity in Bosnia-Herzegovina
- 15 Exhibiting the 'Foreign' in a National Museum: Imperial War Museum London and Languages at War
- Conclusion: Communication, Identity and Representation Through Languages in War
- Index
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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 & Military & Maritime History. We have over 1.5 million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.