Languages and the First World War: Representation and Memory

Julian Walker is a British Library educator, an artist and writer. His books on language include Discovering Words, Team Talk: Sporting Words and their Origins and Trench Talk. Christophe Declercq is a lecturer in translation (University College London, UK and University of Antwerp, Belgium) who has been working on Belgian refugees in Britain for well over a decade. On the subject, he has spoken widely at conferences in both Britain and Belgium, has worked with the BBC and VRT (Belgian television) and manages several social media outlets.

• AcknowledgementsPART I: THE HISTORIAN'S PROBLEMS1. Problems and challenges of a historical approach2. Translation, interpretation and mistranslation: Belgian exiles and 'reformed' soldiers, their records and problems encountered by English language researchersPART II: REPRESENTING THE PRESENT3. 'Fake Belgium' Linguistic issues in the diary of Father Achiel Van Walleghem (1914-1919)4. Out of the Trenches: The Rhetoric of Letters from the Western FrontPART III: LANGUAGE USE AND CHANGE5. 'Aussie': code-switching in an Australian soldiers' magazine – an overview6. From Antwerp to Britain and back again: the language of the Belgian refugee in Britain during the First World War7. Language Changes in the Jewish Community in Kosovo and Metohija after the Balkan Wars (1912-1913) and the First World War (1914-1918)PART IV: LITERATURE AND REPRESENTATION8. 'Excursion into a Foreign Language': Frederic Manning and Ford Madox Ford9. 14 / 1914. On Jean Échenoz's Great War, meta-discourse and the English reception10. 'The Language of Espionage: Mata Hari and the creation of the spy-courtesan'PART V: COMMEMORATION AND MEMORY11. ''Here is our blood. When are our rights?' Flemish Graffiti and the Great War'12. The Languages of Remembrance: An Attempt at a Taxonomy13. Wartime citations in Ernest Weekley's An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English (1921) and contemporary dictionaries14. War Discourse: still talking about the First World War in Britain, 1914-2014