Languages and the Military: Alliances, Occupation and Peace Building

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction: Languages and the Military: Alliances, Occupation and Peace Building....Pages 1-11
One Army, Many Languages: Foreign Troops and Linguistic Diversity in the Eighteenth-Century French Military....Pages 12-24
‘Amidst Clamour and Confusion’: Civilian and Military Linguists at War in the Franco-Irish Campaigns against Britain (1792–1804)....Pages 25-46
Fighting Together: Language Issues in the Military Coordination of First World War Allied Coalition Warfare....Pages 47-57
Languages at War: a UK Ministry of Defence Perspective....Pages 58-69
The Language Policy of the Italian Army in the Occupied Slovenian Territories, 1915–17....Pages 70-85
Mediating for the Third Reich: On Military Translation Cultures in World War II in Northern Finland....Pages 86-99
When Bosnia was a Commonwealth Country: British Forces and their Interpreters in Republika Srpska, 1995–2007....Pages 100-114
A Bilingual Officer Remembers Korea: a Closer Look at Untrained Interpreters in the Korean War....Pages 115-130
Victims of War: Refugees’ First Contacts with the British in the Second World War....Pages 131-147
Jailtacht: the Irish Language and the Conflict in Northern Ireland....Pages 148-174
The AIIC Project to Help Interpreters in Conflict Areas....Pages 175-185
Learning the Language of ‘The Other’ in Conflict-Ridden Cyprus: Exploring Barriers and Possibilities....Pages 186-201
Resolving Conflict via English: the British Council’s Peacekeeping English Project....Pages 202-216
Did Serbo-Croat Die with Yugoslavia? A Different View of Language and Identity in Bosnia-Herzegovina....Pages 217-226
Exhibiting the ‘Foreign’ in a National Museum: Imperial War Museum London and Languages at War....Pages 227-235
Conclusion: Communication, Identity and Representation Through Languages in War....Pages 236-243
Back Matter....Pages 244-249