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

Description: Writing a War of Words by Lynda Mugglestone Writing a War of Words is the first investigation of a valuable archive of war-time notebooks documenting changes to the English language on the Home Front. Using unconventional sources, it explores the effect of war on the language of ordinary people, and reflects on the role of language as an interdisciplinary lens on history. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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. Clarks 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 tocreate 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 archiveincludes 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. Lyndas Mugglestones 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 theinexpressibilities of war, and examines the role of language as an interdisciplinary lens on history. Author Biography 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). Table of Contents Preface: Writing a War of Words1: Word-hoard: From History to Historical Principles2: Reading into Words3: Doing Ones Bit: From Voluntary Endeavour to Conscription4: The Langscape of War5: Border Crossings6: English in a Time of Total War7: Writing the Womans Part8: Written on the Body9: Last Words Review Writing a War of Words is scholarly, as a definitive study should be, but eminently readable. * E. L. Battistella, CHOICE *Writing a War of Words is an invaluable contribution both to lexicography and history from below, recording words and expressions which have been preserved thanks to Clarks immense efforts. It will certainly inspire future research which will provide new insights into the lexical impact of the Great War on the English language. The book will be of interest to lexicographers, language historians, historians and anyone interested in World War I and its discourse, which can be extended to the discourse of war in general. * Prof.Dr. Lelija Socanac, The LINGUIST *Lynda Mugglestones "Writing a War of Words" is a fascinating account of the immense effort of Andrew Clark, a diarist, historian and philologist, to record in minute detail the fleeting existence of English words and shifting meanings which appeared during the Great War in a variety of unconventional sources such as advertising, newspapers, and letters from the Front. This immense lexical richness vividly recreates different aspects of everyday life of ordinary people facing the harsh realities of war. * Lelija Socanac, University of Zagreb, Linguist List *Mugglestone has a shrewd understanding of the technical business and psychological climate of lexicography. Her research is scrupulous, and through her analysis Clarks catalogue of usage comes to seem an achievement of almost Johnsonian proportions - each page a time capsule, and the whole project an extraordinarily detailed map of the periods changing "langscape"... a generous tribute to his [Clarks] linguistic curiosity and curatorial intelligence. * Henry Hitchings, Times Literary Supplement *The voluminous diaries and scrapbooks Andrew Clark compiled during World War One prove him alert to words and usage of the time and a skilled and prescient commentator on their significance. In her new book, Lynda Mugglestone reconstructs Clarks account of the war of words amidst the war, his finger, as she puts it, on the pulse of words in time, equally an apt description of Mugglestones historical touch. Anyone with an interest in the history of English, the Great War, or the Oxford English Dictionary, to which Clark contributed, must read Writing a War of Words. * Michael Adams, Indiana University Bloomington *Lynda Mugglestones Writing a War of Words is a revelation. It tells the story of Andrew Clark, a diarist and philologist whose reflections on language and the Great War offer a wealth of information about English linguistic history and its social contexts. But more generally, it reveals the centrality of the Great War to the study of the English Language itself. Much has been made of Tolkiens war and its impact on his philology and fantasy. Clark is different: he is a personal, self-reflective writer, an acute observer of words and people, and a historian of the imagination. His diary is a true discovery, and Professor Mugglestone shows him standing on a par with Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves. Writing a War of Words will stand with Paul Fussells The Great War and Modern Memory as a lasting, revisionary account of early twentieth-century personal writing, language change, and the wartime literary imagination. * Seth Lerer, University of California, San Diego * Long Description 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. Clarks 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 tocreate 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, aswell as documenting social issues such as the shifting forms of representation as women did their bit on the Home Front. Lyndas Mugglestones 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. Review Quote "The voluminous diaries and scrapbooks Andrew Clark compiled during World War One prove him alert to words and usage of the time and a skilled and prescient commentator on their significance. In her new book, Lynda Mugglestone reconstructs Clarks account of the war of words amidst the war, his finger, as she puts it, on the pulse of words in time, equally an apt description of Mugglestones historical touch. Anyone with an interest in the history of English, the Great War, or the Oxford English Dictionary, to which Clark contributed, must read Writing a War of Words." -- Michael Adams, Indiana University Bloomington "Lynda Mugglestones Writing a War of Words is a revelation. It tells the story of Andrew Clark, a diarist and philologist whose reflections on language and the Great War offer a wealth of information about English linguistic history and its social contexts. But more generally, it reveals the centrality of the Great War to the study of the English Language itself. Much has been made of Tolkiens war and its impact on his philology and fantasy. Clark is different: he is a personal, self-reflective writer, an acute observer of words and people, and a historian of the imagination. His diary is a true discovery, and Professor Mugglestone shows him standing on a par with Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves. Writing a War of Words will stand with Paul Fussells The Great War and Modern Memory as a lasting, revisionary account of early twentieth-century personal writing, language change, and the wartime literary imagination." -- Seth Lerer, University of California, San Diego Feature The first exploration of Andrew Clarks valuable archive of war-time notebooksTraces real-time language history via a first-person contemporary collectionLooks at the language of ordinary people in war-time, based on unconventional and often marginalized sourcesExamines the role of language as an interdisciplinary lens on history Details ISBN0198870159 Format Hardcover Language English ISBN-10 0198870159 ISBN-13 9780198870159 Author Lynda Mugglestone UK Release Date 2021-10-28 Imprint Oxford University Press Place of Publication Oxford Country of Publication United Kingdom NZ Release Date 2021-10-28 Illustrations 10 Subtitle Andrew Clark and the Search for Meaning in World War One Pages 368 Year 2021 Publisher Oxford University Press Publication Date 2021-10-28 DEWEY 940.31 Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2022-01-19 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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