33.1003, Books: Writing a War of Words: Mugglestone

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Subject: 33.1003, Books: Writing a War of Words: Mugglestone

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Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2022 08:14:14
From: Tyler Simnick [Tyler.Simnick at oup.com]
Subject: Writing a War of Words: Mugglestone

 


Title: Writing a War of Words 
Subtitle: Andrew Clark and the Search for Meaning in World War One 
Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/writing-a-war-of-words-9780198870159?utm_source=linguistlist&utm_medium=listserv&utm_campaign=linguistics 


Author: Lynda Mugglestone

Hardback: ISBN:  9780198870159 Pages: 368 Price: U.S. $ 32.95


Abstract:

"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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Language Documentation
                     Lexicography


Written In: English  (eng)

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http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=158353




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