Synopses & Reviews
Emphasising the significance of foreign languages at the centre of war and conflict, this book argues that 'foreignness' and foreign languages are key to our understanding of what happens in war. Through case studies the book traces the role of languages in intelligence, military deployment, soldier/civilian meetings, occupation and peace building.
Synopsis
Trust is foundational to people's lives in contemporary societies, a fact sharply highlighted by recent practices associated with the financial markets, international security, science and technology, marketing and public relations, and even more pervasively and everpresently in the delivery, for example, of health and welfare services, in educational policy and practice, in legal processes, and in the public and private arenas of political and religious institutions. Discourses of Trust presents invited chapters from leading practitioners and researchers exploring how Trust and misTrust are discursively constructed across key social and professional domains. The thesis of this volume is that Trustrelated and Trustbearing issues are central to our understanding of how the conduct of professional practices impacts on human relationships in social life.
About the Author
HILARY FOOTITT Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Modern Languages and European Studies at the University of Reading, UK. She has written widely on Allied/French relationships in the Second World War and on the discourse of women in politics, and was the Principal Investigator for the AHRC Project, ' Languages at War'.
MICHAEL KELLY Professor of French at the University of Southampton, UK. He is a specialist in French cultural history, and has written extensively on the experience of war in France. He is actively involved in supporting change in language teaching practice and theory, and in promoting linguistic and cultural diversity in the UK and across Europe.
Table of Contents
List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
PART I: INTELLIGENCE
Languages in the Intelligence Community
Frameworks for Understanding
The Human in Human Intelligence
PART II: PREPARATION AND SUPPORT
Preparing to Liberate
Languages and Peacekeeping
Language Policy and Peace-Building
PART III: SOLDIER/CIVILIAN MEETINGS
Occupying a Foreign Country
Fraternization
PART IV: COMMUNICATING THROUGH INTERMEDIARIES
Military Interpreters in War
Civilian Interpreting in Military Conflicts
Being an Interpreter in Conflict
Conclusions
References
Index