Multilingual Environments in the Great War

Preface

Part I. Multilingual Environments
Introduction, Hillary Briffa
1. Wilhelm Doegen and the Königlich-Preussische Phonographische Kommission: Translation, Phonetics and Phonography among the Italian Prisoners in the German POW Camps of the Great War, Stefano Bannò
2. The French Army and Russian Interpreting and Translating in France and Macedonia During the First World War, Gwendal Piégais
3. Language in East Africa During the First World War, Anne Samson
4. Pioneers of Internationalism: Esperanto and the First World War, Javier Alcalde
5. Scenarios and Projections in First World War Phrasebooks, Julian Walker

Part II. Language and Identity
Introduction, Constance Ruzich
6. "O Belo Dizem Que é Beau": The Choice of Poetic Language, Performed Identities and Imagined Communities in the First World War, Julia Ribeiro S.C. Thomaz
7. 'Authentic Histories' and Racial Insults: Memoirs on African-American Soldiers in the First World War, Chris Kempshall
8. Romanian Writers who Fought in the First World War and How the "Great War" Shaped their Works, Cristina Ileana Ilea (Rogojina)
9. The 1915 German-Estonian Phrasebook as an Interface of German-Estonian Language Contact and a Vehicle for Annexationist Propaganda, Mart Kuldkepp
10. Politics of Words: Language and Loyalty of Czech-Speaking Soldiers in the Austro-Hungarian Army, Jirí Hutecka

Part III. Non-Combatants
Introduction, Jane Potter
11. Khvosty, Meshochniki and 'Internal Germans': The Transformation of everyday life Language in Russia During the First World War, Iaroslav Golubinov
12. 'Berlitz Krieg': The Development of a Modern Language Pedagogy at Ruhleben Civilian Internment Camp, Jamie Calladine
13. Translating Charity for Allied Aliens: Belgian Charity Books in Britain, Christophe Declercq

Part IV. Post-War
Introduction, Marguerite Helmers
14. Tracing the Afterlife of War Words in Australia, 1919-1929, Amanda Laugesen and Véronique Duché
15. The Language of Battlefield Guidebooks, 1919-1925, Mark Connelly
16. The Mint by 352087 A/C Ross, Jonathon Green
17. When Words Kill...: Armenians, Jews and the Nature of Genocidal Discourse, Fabian Van Samang
18. Creating The International Mind: The Language of Internationalism and the Battle for Global Public Opinion (1912-1938), Steve Witt

Index