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Languages and the Military

Alliances, Occupation and Peace Building

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Editors:
  1. Hilary Footitt

    1. University of Reading, UK

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  2. Michael Kelly

    1. University of Southampton, UK

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Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Languages at War (PASLW)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction: Languages and the Military: Alliances, Occupation and Peace Building

    • Hilary Footitt
    Pages 1-11

  3. One Army, Many Languages: Foreign Troops and Linguistic Diversity in the Eighteenth-Century French Military

    • Christopher Tozzi
    Pages 12-24

  4. ‘Amidst Clamour and Confusion’: Civilian and Military Linguists at War in the Franco-Irish Campaigns against Britain (1792–1804)

    • Sylvie Kleinman
    Pages 25-46

  5. Fighting Together: Language Issues in the Military Coordination of First World War Allied Coalition Warfare

    • Franziska Heimburger
    Pages 47-57

  6. Languages at War: a UK Ministry of Defence Perspective

    • Justin Lewis RE
    Pages 58-69

  7. The Language Policy of the Italian Army in the Occupied Slovenian Territories, 1915–17

    • Petra Svoljšak
    Pages 70-85

  8. Mediating for the Third Reich: On Military Translation Cultures in World War II in Northern Finland

    • Pekka Kujamäki
    Pages 86-99

  9. When Bosnia was a Commonwealth Country: British Forces and their Interpreters in Republika Srpska, 1995–2007

    • Catherine Baker
    Pages 100-114

  10. A Bilingual Officer Remembers Korea: a Closer Look at Untrained Interpreters in the Korean War

    • María Manuela Fernández Sánchez
    Pages 115-130

  11. Victims of War: Refugees’ First Contacts with the British in the Second World War

    • Simona Tobia
    Pages 131-147

  12. Jailtacht: the Irish Language and the Conflict in Northern Ireland

    • Diarmait Mac Giolla Chríost
    Pages 148-174

  13. The AIIC Project to Help Interpreters in Conflict Areas

    • Linda Fitchett
    Pages 175-185

  14. Learning the Language of ‘The Other’ in Conflict-Ridden Cyprus: Exploring Barriers and Possibilities

    • Constadina Charalambous
    Pages 186-201

  15. Resolving Conflict via English: the British Council’s Peacekeeping English Project

    • Peter Hare, Nicholas Fletcher
    Pages 202-216

  16. Did Serbo-Croat Die with Yugoslavia? A Different View of Language and Identity in Bosnia-Herzegovina

    • Louise Askew
    Pages 217-226

  17. Exhibiting the ‘Foreign’ in a National Museum: Imperial War Museum London and Languages at War

    • James Taylor
    Pages 227-235

  18. Conclusion: Communication, Identity and Representation Through Languages in War

    • Michael Kelly
    Pages 236-243

  19. Back Matter

    Pages 244-249
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About this book

Through detailed case studies ranging from the 18th century until today,this book explores the role of foreign languages in military alliances, in occupation and in peace building. It brings together academic researchers and practitioners from the museum and interpreting worlds and the military.

Reviews

“In Languages and the Military, the editors provide excellent case studies which raise hitherto undiscussed topics. … A broad range of sources have been used in preparing this volume, including institutional publications and (annual) reports, interviews, parliamentary discussions, documents of state institutions. This breadth makes the book particularly valuable for readers working on similar topics.” (Tamara Scheer, European History Quarterly, Vol. 46 (1), 2016)

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Reading, UK

    Hilary Footitt

  • University of Southampton, UK

    Michael Kelly

About the editors

LOUISE ASKEW has been a professional translator, interpreter and reviser working between English and Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian for, amongst others, the International War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague and the NATO Stabilization Force HQ in Sarajevo CATHERINE BAKER Research and Teaching Fellow at the University of Southampton and Teaching Fellow in Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict at University College London, UK CONSTADINA CHARALAMBOUS Lecturer in Language Education and Literacy at the European University of Cyprus MARIA MANUELA FERNANDEZ SANCHEZ Senior Lecturer in the Department of Translation and Interpreting at the University of Granada, Spain LINDA FITCHETT Member of the International Association of Conference Interpreters (AIIC) and coordinator of the Interpreters in Conflict Areas project NICHOLAS FLETCHER has worked in English language teaching, teacher training and project management since 1973 in Italy, UK, Venezuela, China, Romania, Poland, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Mozambique, Colombia and Afghanistan PETER HARE has worked in English language teacher training and project management since the 1990s in Hungary, China, Georgia, Mongolia and, currently, Ethiopia FRANZISKA HEIMBURGER is finishing a PhD at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, France SYLVIE KLEINMAN Historian and translator based in Dublin. She is a Research Fellow at the Centre for War Studies, Trinity College Dublin PEKKA KUJAMAKI Professor of German (Translation and Interpreting) at the Philosophical Faculty, University of Eastern Finland LIEUTENANT COLONEL JUSTIN LEWIS runs the UK Defence Operational Languages Support Unit (DOLSU) as the languages Training Requirement Authority for the UK MOD DIARMAIT MAC GHIOLLA CHRIOST Reader in the School of Welsh, Cardiff University, UK PETRA SVOLJSAK Research counsellor at the Milko Kos Historical Institute of the research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts and assistant professor in the department of Cultural History ofthe University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia JAMES TAYLOR Head of Research and Information at the Imperial War Museum, UK SIMONA TOBIA currently teaches Modern European History at the University of Reading, UK CHRISTOPHER TOZZI PhD candidate in the Department of History at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

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