Writing a War of Words: Andrew Clark and the Search for Meaning in World War One by Mugglestone, Lynda

Writing a War of Words: Andrew Clark and the Search for Meaning in World War One (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780198870159)

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Writing a War of Words: Andrew Clark and the Search for Meaning in World War One by Mugglestone, Lynda

Writing a War of Words: Andrew Clark and the Search for Meaning in World War One

$37.99
Writing a War of Words: Andrew Clark and the Search for Meaning in World War One by Mugglestone, Lynda

Writing a War of Words: Andrew Clark and the Search for Meaning in World War One

$37.99
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Lynda Mugglestone
ISBN-10: 0198870159
ISBN-13: 9780198870159
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 01/28/2022
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 1.00d

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Choice 02/01/2023
By Lynda Mugglestone
By Lynda Mugglestone
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Lynda Mugglestone, Professor of the History of English, University of Oxford

Lynda Mugglestone is Professor of the History of English at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Pembroke College. Her research explores language history, language change and attitudes, and lexicography from the eighteenth century onwards, as well as on the history of pronunciation and its social and cultural framing. She is the author of the OUP volumes Talking Proper: The Rise of Accent as Social Symbol (2nd ed., 2007), Dictionaries: A Very Short Introduction (2011), and Samuel Johnson and the Journey into Words (2015), and editor of The Oxford History of English (2nd ed., 2012).

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