Preface: Writing a War of Words
1. Word-hoard: From History to Historical Principles
2. Reading into Words
3. 'Doing One's Bit': From Voluntary Endeavour to Conscription
4. The Langscape of War
5. Border Crossings
6. English in a Time of Total War
7. Writing the
Woman's Part
8. Written on the Body
9. Last Words
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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).