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Languages and the military alliances, occupation and peace building

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For the first time, this book explores the role of foreign languages in military alliances, in occupation and in peace building, through detailed case studies from Ireland, Britain, France, Finland, Slovenia, Korea, Bosnia and Cyprus, ranging from the eighteenth century until today. It adopts a mult...

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Other Authors: Footitt, Hilary, Kelly, Michael
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London, UK Palgrave Macmillan 2012
Series:Palgrave studies in languages at war
Subjects:
Communications, Military > Case studies
Armed Forces > Translating > Case studies
Translating and interpreting
Postwar reconstruction > Social aspects
Combined operations (Military science)
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction : Languages and the Military : Alliances, Occupation and Peace-Building / H. Footitt
  • One Army, Many Languages: Foreign Troops and Linguistic Diversity in the Eighteenth-Century French Military / C. Tozzi
  • 'Amidst Clamour and Confusion': Civilian and Military Linguists at War in the Franco-Irish Campaigns Against Britain (1792-1804) / S. Kleinman
  • Fighting Together : Language Issues in the Military Coordination of First World War Allied Coalition Warfare / F. Heimburger
  • Languages at War : a UK Ministry of Defence Perspective / J. Lewis
  • The Language Policy of the Italian Army in the Occupied Slovenian Territories, 1915-17 / P. Svoljšak
  • Mediating for the Third Reich : On Military Translation Cultures in World War II in Northern Finland / P. Kujamäki
  • When Bosnia was a Commonwealth Country : British Forces and Their Interpreters in Republika Srpska, 1995-2007 / C. Baker
  • A Bilingual Officer Remembers Korea: a Closer Look at Untrained Interpreters in the Korean War / M.M.F. S̀á́nchez
  • Victims of War : Refugees' First Contacts with the British in the Second World War / S. Tobia
  • Jailtacht : the Irish Language and the Conflict in Northern Ireland / D.M.G. Chríost
  • The AIIC Project to Help Interpreters in Conflict Areas / L. Fitchett
  • Learning the Language of 'The Other' in Conflict-Ridden Cyprus : Exploring Barriers and Possibilities / C. Charalambous
  • Resolving Conflict via English : the British Council's Peacekeeping English Project / P. Hare and N. Fletcher
  • Did Serbo-Croat Die with Yugoslavia? : a Different View of Language and Identity in Bosnia-Herzegovina / L. Askew
  • Exhibiting the 'Foreign' in a National Museum: Imperial War Museum London and Languages at War / J. Taylor
  • Conclusion : Communication, Identity and Representation Through Languages in War / M. Kelly
  • Index.

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