Languages and the Military

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

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

3. ‘Amidst Clamour and Confusion’: Civilian and Military Linguists at War in the Franco-Irish Campaigns against Britain (1792–1804)
Sylvie Kleinman

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

5. Languages at War: a UK Ministry of Defence Perspective
Justin Lewis RE

6. The Language Policy of the Italian Army in the Occupied Slovenian Territories, 1915–17
Petra Svoljšak

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

8. When Bosnia was a Commonwealth Country: British Forces and their Interpreters in Republika Srpska, 1995–2007
Catherine Baker

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

10. Victims of War: Refugees’ First Contacts with the British in the Second World War
Simona Tobia

11. Jailtacht: the Irish Language and the Conflict in Northern Ireland
Diarmait Mac Giolla Chríost

12. The AIIC Project to Help Interpreters in Conflict Areas
Linda Fitchett

13. Learning the Language of ‘The Other’ in Conflict-Ridden Cyprus: Exploring Barriers and Possibilities
Constadina Charalambous

14. Resolving Conflict via English: the British Council’s Peacekeeping English Project
Peter Hare, Nicholas Fletcher

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

16. Exhibiting the ‘Foreign’ in a National Museum: Imperial War Museum London and Languages at War
James Taylor

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

Keywords: Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Social History, Translation, Military and Defence Studies, History of Military, Translation Studies