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Title Expressions of war in Australia and the Pacific : language, trauma, memory, and official discourse / Amanda Laugesen, Catherine Fisher, editors
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 237 pages) : illustrations
Series Palgrave studies in languages at war
Palgrave studies in languages at war
Contents Chapter 1: Introduction: Expression of war in Australia and the Pacific: Language, trauma, memory, and official discourse (Amanda Laugesen and Catherine Fisher) -- Chapter 2: Losing people: A linguistic analysis of minimisation in First World War soldiers' accounts of violence (Cara Penry Williams and John Rice-Whetton) -- Chapter 3: Portraying the enemy: Humour in French and Australian trench journals (Véronique Duché) -- Chapter 4: Mnemosyne and Athena: Mary Booth, Anzac, and the language of remembrance in the First World War and after (Bridget Brooklyn) -- Chapter 5: Jacques Rancière and the politics of war literature: Poetry and trauma in Edmund Blunden's Undertones of War (1928) (Neil Ramsey) -- Chapter 6: Voicing the war effort: Australian women's broadcasts during the Second World War (Catherine Fisher) -- Chapter 7: Re-visioning Australia's Second World War: Race hatred, strategic marginalisation, and the visual language of the South West Pacific Campaign (Kevin Foster) -- Chapter 8: 'No written word can express the sympathy of a spoken word': Casualty telegrams after the Battle for Bardia, 1941 (John Moremon) -- Chapter 9: The PTS communication framework: analysing the discourse within the Australian Army News (Lisa Ranson and Leanne Glenny) -- Chapter 10: 'Testament of youth': Young Australians' responses to Anzac (Rebecca Wheatley) -- Chapter 11: Conclusion: Languages of War (Amanda Laugesen and Catherine Fisher)
Summary 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
Notes Includes index
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed October 10, 2019)
Subject Sociolinguistics -- Australia
Sociolinguistics -- Pacific Area
Sociolinguistics
Australia
Pacific Area
Form Electronic book
Author Laugesen, Amanda, editor
Fisher, Catherine, editor
ISBN 9783030238902
3030238903