Words and the First World War : Language, Memory, Vocabulary (Hardcover)

Part I: Language, Dialect and the Need to Communicate 1. Slang, dialect and status 2. The need to communicate 3. Understanding 'the other' Part II: Language at the Front 4. Our language 5. Etymologies 6. How lingua franca developed 7. Glossaries 8. Language as weapon and trophy 9. Control, and self-control 10. Avoidance 11. Wordplay 12. The sound of war 13. Language in combat 14. The destruction of the body 15. Failure 16. Unacceptable weapons Part III: 'Us' and 'Them' 17. Race 18. Naming the enemy 19. How others spoke 20. Naming 'our' side 21. The female Part IV: The Home Front 22. Commerce and war language 23. DORA and the control of words 24. Outrage 25. Women and children Part V: Owning the Language 26. Class war 27. 'Not us' 28. Our language Part VI: Letting Go 29. Losing the language of war 30. The language of commemoration 31. Silence 32. Post-war war talk 33. War porn 34. Then and now Bibliography Index