Editors:
- Directly contributes to the project of understanding language in the context of war and conflict
- Makes use of a variety of fascinating resources such as collections of war photography, records of women’s radio broadcasts, soldiers’ letters, oral interviews, and casualty notifications
- Shifts and broadens the geographical focus of the existing scholarship in language and war
- Draws on innovative methods from a variety of disciplines
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Languages at War (PASLW)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This edited book includes chapters that explore the impact of war and its aftermath in language and official discourse. It covers a broad chronological range from the First World War to very recent experiences of war, with a focus on Australia and the Pacific region. It examines three main themes in relation to language: the impact of war and trauma on language, the language of war remembrance, and the language of official communications of war and the military. An innovative work that takes an interdisciplinary approach to the themes of war and language, the collection will be of interest to students and scholars across linguistics, literary studies, history and conflict studies.
Editors and Affiliations
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Australian National Dictionary Centre, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Amanda Laugesen
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School of History, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Catherine Fisher
About the editors
Amanda Laugesen is Director of the Australian National Dictionary Centre at the Australian National University. She is the author of a number of books, including Furphies and Whizz-bangs: Anzac Slang from the Great War (2015) and Taking Books to the World: American Publishers and the Cultural Cold War (2017).
Catherine Fisher is a Visiting Fellow in the School of History at the Australian National University. Her research examines the history of Australian women’s broadcasting. Her work has been published in Women’s History Review, Outskirts: Feminisms Along the Edge, and Lilith: A Feminist History Journal.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Expressions of War in Australia and the Pacific
Book Subtitle: Language, Trauma, Memory, and Official Discourse
Editors: Amanda Laugesen, Catherine Fisher
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Languages at War
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23890-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-23889-6Published: 18 October 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-23892-6Published: 18 October 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-23890-2Published: 04 October 2019
Series ISSN: 2947-5902
Series E-ISSN: 2947-5910
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 237
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociolinguistics, Conflict Studies, Memory Studies, Corpus Linguistics, History of World War II and the Holocaust