Title: Languages and the military : alliances, occupation and peace building /
Authors: Footitt, Hilary.; Kelly, Michael, 1946-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan,
Year: 2012
Subjects: HISTORY / Social History.; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Translating & Interpreting.; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics.; Communications, Military Case studies.; Armed Forces Translating services Case studies.; Translating and interpreting.; Postwar reconstruction Social aspects.; Combined operations (Military science); Armed Forces Translating Case studies.; HISTORY Military Other.; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING Military Science.; Sociolinguistics.; Military history.; Peace studies & conflict resolution.; International relations.; Languages.
Abstract: For the first time, this book explores the role of foreign languages in military alliances, in occupation and in peace building, through detailed case studies from Ireland, Britain, France, Finland, Slovenia, Korea, Bosnia and Cyprus, ranging from the eighteenth century until today. It adopts a multidisciplinary perspective, bringing together academic researchers and practitioners -- from the military, and from the museum and interpreting worlds. The book raises key issues about communication, identity and representation in war, and argues that the complex linguistic dimensions of conflict and peace operations are of major relevance to military planners, civilian agencies, museums and the media.
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.