Languages and the Military: Alliances, Occupation and Peace Building

by H. Footitt (Editor), M. Kelly (Editor)

Overview

Through detailed case studies ranging from the 18th century until today,this book explores the role of foreign languages in military alliances, in occupation and in peace building. It brings together academic researchers and practitioners from the museum and interpreting worlds and the military.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230365513
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	07/31/2012
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Languages at War
Edition description:	2012
Pages:	249
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

LOUISE ASKEW has been a professional translator, interpreter and reviser working between English and Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian for, amongst others, the International War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague and the NATO Stabilization Force HQ in Sarajevo CATHERINE BAKER Research and Teaching Fellow at the University of Southampton and Teaching Fellow in Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict at University College London, UK CONSTADINA CHARALAMBOUS Lecturer in Language Education and Literacy at the European University of Cyprus MARIA MANUELA FERNANDEZ SANCHEZ Senior Lecturer in the Department of Translation and Interpreting at the University of Granada, Spain LINDA FITCHETT Member of the International Association of Conference Interpreters (AIIC) and coordinator of the Interpreters in Conflict Areas project NICHOLAS FLETCHER has worked in English language teaching, teacher training and project management since 1973 in Italy, UK, Venezuela, China, Romania, Poland, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Mozambique, Colombia and Afghanistan PETER HARE has worked in English language teacher training and project management since the 1990s in Hungary, China, Georgia, Mongolia and, currently, Ethiopia FRANZISKA HEIMBURGER is finishing a PhD at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, France SYLVIE KLEINMAN Historian and translator based in Dublin. She is a Research Fellow at the Centre for War Studies, Trinity College Dublin PEKKA KUJAMAKI Professor of German (Translation and Interpreting) at the Philosophical Faculty, University of Eastern Finland LIEUTENANT COLONEL JUSTIN LEWIS runs the UK Defence Operational Languages Support Unit (DOLSU) as the languages Training Requirement Authority for the UK MOD DIARMAIT MAC GHIOLLA CHRIOST Reader in the School of Welsh, Cardiff University, UK PETRA SVOLJSAK Research counsellor at the Milko Kos Historical Institute of the research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts and assistant professor in the department of Cultural History of the University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia JAMES TAYLOR Head of Research and Information at the Imperial War Museum, UK SIMONA TOBIA currently teaches Modern European History at the University of Reading, UK CHRISTOPHER TOZZI PhD candidate in the Department of History at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figure vii

Preface viii

Notes on Contributors ix

Introduction: Languages and the Military: Alliances, Occupation and Peace Building Hilary Footitt 1

1 One Army, Many Languages: Foreign Troops and Linguistic Diversity in the Eighteenth-Century French Military Christopher Tozzi 12

2 'Amidst Clamour and Confusion': Civilian and Military Linguists at War in the Franco-Irish Campaigns against Britain (1792-1804) Sylvie Kleinman 25

3 Fighting Together: Language Issues in the Military Coordination of First World War Allied Coalition Warfare Franziska Heimburger 47

4 Languages at War: a UK Ministry of Defence Perspective Lieutenant Colonel Justin Lewis RE 58

5 The Language Policy of the Italian Army in the Occupied Slovenian Territories, 1915-17 Perm Svoljšak 70

6 Mediating for the Third Reich: On Military Translation Cultures in World War II in Northern Finland Pekka Kujamäki 86

7 When Bosnia was a Commonwealth Country: British Forces and their Interpreters in Republika Srpska, 1995-2007 Catherine Baker 100

8 A Bilingual Officer Remembers Korea: a Closer Look at Untrained Interpreters in the Korean War María Manuela Fernández Sánchez 115

9 Victims of War: Refugees' First Contacts with the British in the Second World War Simona Tobia 131

10 Jailtacht: the Irish Language and the Conflict in Northern Ireland Diarmait Mac Giolla Chríost 148

11 The AIIC Project to Help Interpreters in Conflict Areas Linda Fitchett 175

12 Learning the Language of 'The Other' in Conflict-Ridden Cyprus: Exploring Barriers and Possibilities Constadina Charalambous 186

13 Resolving Conflict via English: the British Council's Peacekeeping English Project Peter Hare Nicholas Fletcher 202

14 Did Serbo-Croat Die with Yugoslavia? A Different View of Language and Identity in Bosnia-Herzegovina Louise Askew 217

15 Exhibiting the 'Foreign' in a National Museum: Imperial War Museum London and Languages at War James Taylor 227

Conclusion: Communication, Identity and Representation Through Languages in War Michael Kelly 236

Index 244

Editorial Reviews

In Languages and the Military, the editors provide excellent case studies which raise hitherto undiscussed topics. … A broad range of sources have been used in preparing this volume, including institutional publications and (annual) reports, interviews, parliamentary discussions, documents of state institutions. This breadth makes the book particularly valuable for readers working on similar topics.” (Tamara Scheer, European History Quarterly, Vol. 46 (1), 2016)

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