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1. link.springer.com › chapter › 10The British in the Second World War: Translation, Language ...

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   Feb 19, 2019 · The chapter argues that languages were in fact embedded in British war efforts, exemplifying this in three areas of war-making: intelligence, with particular reference to Bletchley Park and the Y stations; language policies developed for the occupation of Germany; and the establishment of a corps of military interpreters to assist the trial of ...

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     Michael Kelly is Emeritus Professor of French at the...

2. somerford.dorset.sch.uk › 2020 › 04MICHAEL MORPURGO - somerford.dorset.sch.uk

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   Painted by Captain James Nicholls, autumn 1914. Some in the village, only a very few now and fewer as each year goes by, remember Joey as he was. His story is written so that neither he nor those who knew him, nor the war they lived and died in, will be forgotten.

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3. www.kcl.ac.uk › warstudies › wsugreadinglistsDepartment of War Studies - King's College London

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   Undergraduate reading list. Here is a list of books and articles which you might want to have a look at before you arrive. We've arranged them by degree subject, but feel free to read whatever interests you!

4. link.springer.com › book › 10Languages and the First World War: Representation and Memory

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   Communicating in a Transnational War examines languages at the front, including the subject of interpretation, translation and parallels between languages; communication with the home front; propaganda and language manipulation; and recording language during the war.

5. content.e-bookshelf.de › L-3015492-a903db0eafPalgrave Studies in Languages at War - content.e-bookshelf.de

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   The book contrasts these challenges with the situation during the Cold War period and outlines NATO’s language policy and practices, including the growing dominance of the English language.

6. academic.oup.com › book › 26070British Writing of the Second World War | Oxford Academic

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   Apr 27, 2000 · This book is the first study to provide a detailed critical and historical survey of British literary culture in wartime. Concerned as much with war as with writing, it explores the significance of cultural representations of violence to the administration of the war effort.

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   Did languages play a role in the Second World War?

   • Policies and ethics Historical accounts of British activities in the Second World War tend to place their participation in linguistic vacuum. The chapter argues that languages were in fact embedded in British war efforts, exemplifying this in three areas of war-making: intelligence,...

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   Was the Second World War a linguistic vacuum?

   • The implicit assumption in much of the scholarship has been that the Second World War was conducted in a linguistic vacuum where allies and enemies mystifyingly interacted through the medium of their own first language.

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   What books are based on World War 1?

   • Russell Freedman, The War to End all Wars: World War I (Houghton Mifflin, 2013) Margaret MacMillan, War. How Conflict Shaped Us (Random House, 2020) AJP Taylor , The Origins of the Second World War (Penguin Books; New Ed edition, 1991) Ernest Hemingway, Hemingway On War, ( Vintage Classics, 4th edition, 2014)

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   How should language policies be viewed in war?

   • As Kelly argues (2012), it may be useful to view language policies in war in terms of functional needs, as well as being products of politics and ideology, examining the networks and associations which produce the framework of language exchanges, and studying the physical as well as the verbal presence of languages on the ground of war.

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   Was the Second World War a foreign language?

   • Viewing the history of the Second World War as one which involved foreign languages (Footitt and Tobia 2013), one in which the key activities of war had a specific foreign language dimension, challenges simplistic ethnocentric framings which assume that the British would necessarily have fought their war in English.

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   Why were foreign languages important in WW2?

   • The story that unfolds is of a growing realization on the part of the authorities that foreign languages would be needed if Britain was to conduct its war successfully, and of a gradual integration of language capacities within the principal activities of war.

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8. www.kcl.ac.uk › warstudies › wspgreadinglistsDepartment of War Studies - King's College London

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   You are not expected to have begun course readings before the start of your course. However, if you wish to have a look at some key texts relevant to the degree you will be taking, we offer the following suggestions for highly readable books, some new and some classics in IR.