This book offers a new perspective on the British experience of the Second World War in Europe, one in which foreignness and foreign languages are central to the dynamics of war-making. It offers a series of snapshots of the role which foreign languages played in Britain's war – in intelligence gathering (both signals and human intelligence), in psychological warfare, in preparations for liberating and occupying the continent, in denazification, in providing relief for refugees and displaced persons, and in postwar relationships with the USSR. By mapping the linguistic landscape of Britain's war in Europe, key aspects of international communication – translation, language performance, authenticity, language policies – are seen to be vital to military preparations and operations.

WarTalk: Foreign Languages and the British War Effort in Europe, 1940-47 (Palgrave Studies in Languages at War)

Literature & Fiction

Footitt, Hilary

Tobia, Simona

History & Criticism

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Women, Europe and the New Languages of Politics (Politics, Culture & Society in the New Europe)

This book contributes to two ongoing debates: one about the presence and activity of women in politics, and the other about the part which language plays in shaping and developing our political activity. Footitt argues that, in a world of shifting roots and multiple identities, the stories we tell, the ways in which we understand the relationships between us, and the communities we imagine ourselves belonging to, are of ever-increasing political importance. At the center of the study are the women from twelve European Union countries who participate in the transnational political site of the European Parliament. Using interviews with women Members of the European Parliment, and a close textual study of speeches in the European Parliament, Hilary Footitt argues that women have created a language of politics that transcends nationalities and political parties and contributes to engendering democracy, defining citizenship and imagining the community of Europe. Politics, she argues, is multilingual, and an understanding of the varieties of vocabularies and grammars that are potentially available to us may help us to create a more inclusive and dynamic political process.

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Bloomsbury Academic

This book contributes to two ongoing debates: one about the presence and activity of women in politics, and the other about the part which language plays in shaping and developing our political activity. Footitt argues that, in a world of shifting roots and multiple identities, the stories we tell, the ways in which we understand the relationships between us, and the communities we imagine ourselves belonging to, are of ever-increasing political importance. At the center of the study are the women from twelve European Union countries who participate in the transnational political site of the European Parliament. Using interviews with women Members of the European Parliment, and a close textual study of speeches in the European Parliament, Hilary Footitt argues that women have created a language of politics that transcends nationalities and political parties and contributes to engendering democracy, defining citizenship and imagining the community of Europe. Politics, she argues, is multilingual, and an understanding of the varieties of vocabularies and grammars that are potentially available to us may help us to create a more inclusive and dynamic political process.

From a series which examines the liberation of Europe after World War II, this covers the development of very different views about the future of France - held by the liberators, Gaullists and Resistance groups - and examines them in the light of the actual transfer of power.

France, 1943-1945 (The Politics of Liberation Series)

History

Simmonds, John

Europe

Holmes & Meier Pub

Offering a new perspective on the British experience of the Second World War in Europe, this book provides a series of snapshots of the role which languages played in the key processes of British war-making, moving from frameworks of perception and intelligence gathering, through to liberation/occupation, and on to the aftermath of conflict.

This book contributes to the debates around the presence and activity of women in politics, as well as the part which language plays in shaping and developing political activity. Footitt argues that, in a world of shifting roots and multiple identities, the stories we tell, the ways in which we understand the relationships between us, and the communities we imagine ourselves belonging to, are of ever-increasing political importance. At the centre of the study are the women from 12 European Union countries who participate in the transnational political site of the European Parliament. Using interviews with female Members of the European Parliament from the late 90s and early 00s, and a close textual study of speeches in the European Parliament, Hilary Footitt argues that women have created a language of politics that transcends nationalities and political parties and contributes to engendering democracy, defining citizenship and imagining the community of Europe. Politics, she argues, is multilingual, and an understanding of the varieties of vocabularies and grammars that are potentially available to us may help us to create a more inclusive and dynamic political process.

Women, Europe and the New Languages of Politics (Cultural Studies: Bloomsbury Academic Collections)

Anthropology

Development NGOs and Languages: Listening, Power and Inclusion

This book&nbsp;addresses, for the first time, the question of how development NGOs attempt to 'listen' to communities in linguistically diverse environments. NGOs are under increasing pressure to demonstrate that they 'listen' to the people and communities that they are trying to serve, but this can be an immensely challenging task where there are significant language and cultural differences. However, until now, there has been no systematic study of the role of foreign languages in development work. The authors present findings based on interviews with a wide range of NGO staff and government officials, NGO archives, and observations of NGO-community interaction in country case studies. They suggest ways in which NGOs can reform their language policies to listen to the recipients of aid more effectively.

Business & Money

Tesseur, Wine

Crack, Angela M.

Economics

Afghan Interpreters Through Western Eyes: Foreignness and the Politics of Evacuation (Palgrave Studies in Languages at War)

Social Sciences

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WarTalk: Foreign Languages and the British War Effort in Europe, 1940-47 (Palgrave Studies in Languages at War)

Women, Europe and the New Languages of Politics (Politics, Culture & Society in the New Europe)

Women, Europe and the New Languages of Politics (Politics, Culture & Society in the New Europe)

France, 1943-1945 (The Politics of Liberation Series)

WarTalk: Foreign Languages and the British War Effort in Europe, 1940-47 (Palgrave Studies in Languages at War)

Women, Europe and the New Languages of Politics (Cultural Studies: Bloomsbury Academic Collections)

Development NGOs and Languages: Listening, Power and Inclusion

Development NGOs and Languages: Listening, Power and Inclusion

Afghan Interpreters Through Western Eyes: Foreignness and the Politics of Evacuation (Palgrave Studies in Languages at War)