25.2001, Confs: General Linguistics/UK

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Subject: 25.2001, Confs: General Linguistics/UK

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Date: Tue, 06 May 2014 10:38:01
From: Robert Davies [robert.davies at bl.uk]
Subject: Languages and First World War

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Languages and First World War 

Date: 20-Jun-2014 - 20-Jun-2014 
Location: London, United Kingdom 
Contact: Robert Davies 
Contact Email: languages.fww at outlook.com 
Meeting URL: http://www.bl.uk/whatson/events/event160561.html 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

In this conference to be hosted by the University of Antwerp and the British Library, World War One is discussed in terms of its influence on language: what changes were there within individual languages, and how did the languages of combatant nations influence each other? Was schoolboy French of any use to British soldiers, how did the profession of interpretation develop, how was Esperanto used, and how did soldiers use parables and poetry in letters home? The conference will examine the linguistic experience of the war through a wide range of subjects covering 10 languages used during the conflict.

To reflect the nature of the subjects covered, the conference is intended to be truly international with the first day of the conference taking place on the 18 June at the University of Antwerp;  19 June as a day for delegates to visit sites in Belgium, should they so wish, and for travel to London for this, the third day of the conference.

Please note, delegates can attend either or both days of the conference. This booking page is for 20 June at the British Library only. A link to the booking page for Antwerp will appear on the Languages and First World War tumblr page which is dedicated to the conference:

http://languages-and-first-world-war.tumblr.com/

Please also follow us on twitter: @languagesfww

If you have any questions about the conference please email the organisers: languages.fww at outlook.com

Ticket prices for London include lunch and refreshments. 

Conference Programme for London (20th June - details for the University of Antwerp day on the 18th June to be finalized)

9.00
Coffee

9.30 -10.30
Welcome

Keynote paper:

Lynda Mugglestone (Oxford)
Living language history – Andrew Clark and the Words in War-Time project

10.30 – 12.00  
Panel 3 Communication on the Western Front

Krista Cowman (Lincoln)
The 'parlez' is not going very well 'avec moi'

Franziska Heimburger (EHESS)
'Tommy French' and other modes of communication – the British Army faces the Civilians on the Western Front

Rachel Cowgill (Cardiff)
'Somewhere in France': Popular Song, Innocence and Experience among British troops on the Western Front

12.00-1.00 Lunch
(incl. presentations – Sarah Mellowes, Adam Matthews Publishers)

2.00-3.00
Panels 4A and 4B

Panel 4A Personal Communication in War

Hilary Footitt (Reading)
Poetry, Parables and Codes: Translating the Letters of Indian Soldiers

Liz Treacher (Sutherland) 
Saying the Unsayable: Metaphor and Metonymy in First World War letters

Maguerite Helmers (Wisconsin)
War Diaries and the rhetoric of banal nationalism

Ifor ap Glyn (Cwmni Da Production) 
'Dear Mother, I am very sorry I cannot write to you in Welsh'. Censorship and the Welsh language in the First World War

Panel 4B Language Change and War

Véronique Duché and Diane de Saint Léger (Melbourne)
'Aussie': Code-switching in an Australian soldiers’ magazine

Gavin Bowd (St. Andrews)
>From Hatred to Hybridisation: The German language in occupied France, 1914-1918

Koenraad Du Pont (Leuven) 
Sociolinguistic aspects of Italian war propaganda: The example of the trench journal 'L’Astico'

Jonnie Robinson (British Library)
'They were lost and now they are found'. Berliner Lautarchiv Dialect Recordings of British POWs

3.00-3.30
Tea

3.30-5.00
Panels 5A and 5B

Panel 5A Language and the Representation of War

Geert Buelens (Utrecht) 
'The Languages of Remembrance, comparative analysis of contemporary discourse of remembrance'            

Julie Wheelwright (City)
The language of espionage: Mata Hari and the creation of Spy-Courtesan

Nick Milne (Ottawa)
Persuasion vs. Deception: the connotative shifts of ‘Propaganda’ and their critical implications

Panel 5 B Language and Literature

Robert Hampson (London)
'Excursion into a foreign tongue': Foreign Languages in Ford Madox Ford's 'Parade's End' and Frederic Manning's 'Her Privates We'.

Ann-Marie Einhaus (Northumbria)
Untranslated foreign language use as a mirror of war experience in Manning's 'Her Privates We' and Anand's 'Across the Black Waters'

Katherine Baxter (Northumbria)
Funny Voices: Language, cross-cultural encounter and humour in popular fiction of the Great War

5.00-5.30
Concluding remarks

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