Expressions of War in Australia and the Pacific
Language, Trauma, Memory, and Official Discourse
Editors: Laugesen, Amanda, Fisher, Catherine (Eds.)
Free Preview- Directly contributes to the project of understanding language in the context of war and conflict
- Makes use of a variety of fascinating resources such as collections of war photography, records of women’s radio broadcasts, soldiers’ letters, oral interviews, and casualty notifications
- Shifts and broadens the geographical focus of the existing scholarship in language and war
- Draws on innovative methods from a variety of disciplines
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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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Amanda Laugesen is Director of the Australian National Dictionary Centre at the Australian National University. She is the author of a number of books, including Furphies and Whizz-bangs: Anzac Slang from the Great War (2015) and Taking Books to the World: American Publishers and the Cultural Cold War (2017).
Catherine Fisher is a Visiting Fellow in the School of History at the Australian National University. Her research examines the history of Australian women’s broadcasting. Her work has been published in Women’s History Review, Outskirts: Feminisms Along the Edge, and Lilith: A Feminist History Journal.
- Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Introduction: Expressions of War in Australia and the Pacific—Language, Trauma, Memory, and Official Discourse
Pages 1-16
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Losing People: A Linguistic Analysis of Minimisation in First World War Soldiers’ Accounts of Violence
Pages 17-42
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Portraying the Enemy: Humour in French and Australian Trench Journals
Pages 43-65
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Mnemosyne and Athena: Mary Booth, Anzac, and the Language of Remembrance in the First World War and After
Pages 67-86
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Jacques Rancière and the Politics of War Literature: Poetry and Trauma in Edmund Blunden’s Undertones of War (1928)
Pages 87-103
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Expressions of War in Australia and the Pacific
- Book Subtitle
- Language, Trauma, Memory, and Official Discourse
- Editors
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- Amanda Laugesen
- Catherine Fisher
- Series Title
- Palgrave Studies in Languages at War
- Copyright
- 2020
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-23890-2
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-23890-2
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-23889-6
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-23892-6
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVI, 237
- Number of Illustrations
- 12 b/w illustrations
- Topics
