Multilingual environments in the Great War

"Exploring the differing ways in which language has been used to try to make sense of the First World War, this book compares the experiences of a wide range of languages. Offering further developments in an innovative approach to the study of the conflict, this volume develops a transnational viewpoint of the experience of war to explore less expected areas of language use during the conflict. Taking the study of the First World War far beyond the Western Front, the chapters in this book examine experiences in many regions, including Africa, Armenia, post-war Australia, Russia and Estonia, and a variety of contexts, from prisoner-of-war and internment camps, to food queues and post-war barracks. Drawing upon a wide variety of languages, such as Esperanto, Flemish, Italian, Kiswahili, Portuguese, Romanian and Turkish, Multilingual Environments in the Great War brings together language experiences of conflict from both combatants and the home front, connecting language and literature with linguistic analysis of the immediacy of communication"--

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 Bann ̣ -- 2 The French Army and Russian Interpreting and Translating in France and Macedonia During the First World War, Gwendal Piǧais -- 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 ̌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 C…