Languages and the First World War: Representation and Memory

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Languages and the First World War presents essays by international academics investigating the linguistic aspects of the 1914-18 conflict. A variety of topics are covered including slang, censorship, phrasebooks and influences between languages and communicating the war during and after the conflict.

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Julian Walker is a British Library educator, an artist and writer. His books on language include Discovering Words, Team Talk: Sporting Words and their Origins and Trench Talk. Christophe Declercq is a lecturer in translation (University College London, UK and University of Antwerp, Belgium) who has been working on Belgian refugees in Britain for well over a decade. On the subject, he has spoken widely at conferences in both Britain and Belgium, has worked with the BBC and VRT (Belgian television) and manages several social media outlets.

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