TY - CHAP
T1 - The Languages of Remembrance
T2 - An Attempt at a Taxonomy
AU - Buelens, G.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Every speech act about and interpretation of the Great War today is also a way of remembering it. Remembering this cataclysmic event has become an almost religious practice in many countries. People want to remember it well, humbly and respectfully. Yet a commemoration of such an event can never be disinterested. As members of local, national and academic communities, we are all invested in many practices of remembrance. But every act of remembering is selective. It is impossible to do justice to every participant, to everybody who suffered from the war, to every episode of the war, which had many consequences for the local and national histories of the different parties involved.
AB - Every speech act about and interpretation of the Great War today is also a way of remembering it. Remembering this cataclysmic event has become an almost religious practice in many countries. People want to remember it well, humbly and respectfully. Yet a commemoration of such an event can never be disinterested. As members of local, national and academic communities, we are all invested in many practices of remembrance. But every act of remembering is selective. It is impossible to do justice to every participant, to everybody who suffered from the war, to every episode of the war, which had many consequences for the local and national histories of the different parties involved.
KW - First World War Studies
KW - memory, transnational, mediation, globalisation
U2 - 10.1057/9781137550361
DO - 10.1057/9781137550361
M3 - Chapter
SN - 978-1-137-55035-4
T3 - Palgrave Studies in Languages at War
SP - 199
EP - 213
BT - Languages and the First World War
A2 - Declercq, Christophe
A2 - Walker, Julian
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
CY - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York
ER -