Languages and the military : alliances, occupation and peace building /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Other Authors:	Footitt, Hilary, Kelly, Michael, 1946-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : 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) Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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.