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Cover -- Writing A War Of Words: Andrew Clark And The Search For Meaning In World War One -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List Of Illustrations -- Introduction: Writing A War Of Words -- The Treasures Of Time -- A Wealth Of Words -- 1: Word-hoard: From History To Historical Principles -- Making A Break -- Seizing The Moment -- Minuteness: On Being Aubrey In World War One -- 2: Reading Into Words -- Critical Reading In A Fettered Press -- The Register Of Words -- Word-pictures -- Advertising And The Art Of Appropriation 3: 'doing One's Bit': From Voluntary Endeavour To Conscription -- Voluntary Principles: Language, Conflict, And The Volunteer -- Stigma And Stereotype: Writing The Non-fighter -- Derby Men, Conscripts, And The Pull Of Conscience -- 4: The Langscape Of War -- Movement And Stasis: The Rise Of Trench Warfare -- Being In The Trenches -- Doing War -- Writing Sound And Mud -- 5: Border Crossings -- Diversity And The National Tongue -- Allied Diction: Russian And French -- Indian English -- Writing The Enemy -- Slurs, Ethnonyms, And Over-lexicalization -- 6: English In A Time Of Total War War And Warfare At Home: From Zeppelinophobia To All Clear -- Reciprocity, Reprisal, And Response -- 7: Writing The Women's Part -- The Domestic Discourse Of War -- Claiming The Right To Serve -- The Social Space Of Meaning -- 8: Written On The Body -- 'being In The Wars': Frostbite And Trench Foot -- Having The Wrong 'pals': Trench Fever And Trench Plagues -- 'mental Cases': Writing A War Of Nerves -- From Raid Shock To Discolouration: Writing The Body On The Home Front -- 9: Last Words -- Reconstruction And Return -- Memory And The Language Of Memorialization -- Retrospectives -- Notes Lynda Mugglestone. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Electronic Reproduction. Oxford Available Via World Wide Web.