Binding: Hardcover
Description: Writing a War of Words is the first exploration of the war - time quest by Andrew Clark - a writer historian and volunteer on the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary - to document changes in the English language from the start of the First World War up to 1919. Clark's unique series of lexical scrapbooks replete with clippings annotations and real - time definitions reveals a desire to put living language history to the fore and to create a record of often fleeting popular use. The rise of trench warfare the Zeppelinophobia of total war and descriptions of shellshock (and raid shock on the Home Front) all drew his attentive gaze. The archive includes examples from a range of sources such as advertising newspapers and letters from the Front as well as documenting social issues such as the shifting forms of representation as women 'did their bit on the Home Front. Lynda's Mugglestone's fascinating investigation of this valuable archive reassesses the conventional accounts of language history during this period recuperates Clark himself as another 'forgotten lexicographer' challenges the received wisdom on the inexpressibilities of war and examines the role of language as an interdisciplinary lens on history.
Title: Writing A War Of Words Andrew Clark And The Search For Meaning In World War One
Author(s): Mugglestone Lynda (Professor Of The History Of English Professor Of The History Of English University Of Oxford)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198870159
Pages: 368 Pages, 10
Publication Date: 1/28/2022
Category: Social & Cultural History