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1 online resource (245 pages) |
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Palgrave Studies in Languages at War Ser |
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Palgrave Studies in Languages at War Ser
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| Contents |
Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Abbreviations; List of Figures; Introduction: Expressions of War in Australia and the Pacific-Language, Trauma, Memory, and Official Discourse; Writing About Language and War; Methodologies and Approaches; War and Trauma; War and Memory; Language, Propaganda, and Official Communication; Losing People: A Linguistic Analysis of Minimisation in First World War Soldiers' Accounts of Violence; Methodology: Corpus and Analysis; Results and Discussion; Downplaying Violence and Death Via Figurative Language; Euphemism; Metaphor |
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Downplaying the Involvement of HumansPassive Voice; Simplified Register; The Omission of the Copula; The Omission of the Subject; The Omission of Subject and Copula; The Omission of Existential there is/are; Verbless Clauses; Numbers Used in Isolation; Nominalisation/Light Verb Constructions; Use of Inanimate Nouns in Place of People Involved; Conclusion; Portraying the Enemy: Humour in French and Australian Trench Journals; Language and the Enemy; Naming the Enemy; The German Language in French and Australian Trench Journals; Conclusion |
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Mnemosyne and Athena: Mary Booth, Anzac, and the Language of Remembrance in the First World War and AfterMary Booth; Invoking and Evoking 'Home'; Women, Remembrance, and the Language of Anzac; Anzac, Britishness, and Language; Language and Politics in Interwar Australia; Conclusion; Jacques Rancière and the Politics of War Literature: Poetry and Trauma in Edmund Blunden's Undertones of War (1928); War Literature, Trauma, and the Experience of Suffering; Rancière and the Representation of Trauma; Voicing the War Effort: Australian Women's Broadcasts During the Second World War; The Radio War |
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Language and BroadcastingOpportunities for Women?; Voicing the War Effort at Home; The Meaning of Radio Speech in Troubled Times; The Voice of Australia; Conclusion; Re-visioning Australia's Second World War: Race Hatred, Strategic Marginalisation, and the Visual Language of the South West Pacific Campaign; Creating a Visual History of the War; Re-reading the Visual History of Moral Triumphalism; Documenting Australia's Contribution; 'No written word can express the sympathy of a spoken word': Casualty Telegrams After the Battle for Bardia, 1941 |
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The Post-Traumatic Stress Communication Framework: Analysing the Discourse Within the Australian Army NewsBackground; The PTS Communication Framework and Its Origins; Legitimacy; Identity; Agency; Responsibility; Conclusion; 'Testament of Youth': Young Australians' Responses to Anzac; It's Australian; Sacred Anzac; A National Day?; A Family Story; Inclusive and Exclusive Anzac; What Did You Do on Anzac Day?; Conclusion; Conclusion: Languages of War; Index |
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Print version record |
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War -- Influence
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War and society.
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War and literature -- Australia
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War and literature -- Pacific Area
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Linguistics.
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linguistics.
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Language and languages
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Linguistics
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War and literature
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War and society
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War -- Influence
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Australia -- Languages.
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Pacific Area -- Languages
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Australia
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Pacific Area
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Fisher, Catherine
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| ISBN |
9783030238902 |
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3030238903 |
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