Overview

This volume contributes to the study of political and especially totalitarian language in the countries of the former Eastern Bloc, by bringing together not only diachronic and synchronic aspects, but also by including different media types, such as newspapers, the internet, and different discourse types, e.g. environmental and gender discourses. The combination of historical and contemporary perspectives in many contributions add comparative dimensions, while also shedding light on relevant socio-political developments and phenomena in those post-communist countries, thus uniting linguistic methods with cultural studies.

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Author:   Beatrix Kreß
Publisher:   Peter Lang AG
Imprint:   Peter Lang AG
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   5
Weight:   0.370kg
ISBN:  

9783631632765

ISBN 10:   3631632762
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   23 November 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents: Beatrix Kreß: Introduction – Holger Kuße: Emotive signs and evaluation in totalitarian language: About Bexu and Andrey Vyšinskij – Claudia Woldt: Deontic modality in political discourse - expressions of tolerance and intolerance in Czech parliamentary debates before and after 1989 – Vladislava Warditz: Totalitarianism - Anti-totalitarianism - Post-totaliarianism? A historical perspective on totalitarian discourse in Russian linguistics – Karen Gammelgaard: Totalitarian self-designation: the case of jednota in the Czech totalitarian register 1948-1953 – Dmitrij Dobrovol’skij/Ludmila Pöppel: The semantic field of POWER and political propaganda: революция (revolution) vs. переворот (coup) and восстание (uprising) vs. мятеж (revolt) – Tora Hedin: Changing media discourse - the Czech daily Rudé právo in the Stalinist years – Ioulia Grigorieva: Moralizing speech acts in German and Russian print media during the 2008 South Ossetia War – Beatrix Kreß: Is there a totalitarian language in non-totalitarian states? – Marina Scharlaj: Personalization, visualization and McDonaldization of power in Belarus – Liana Goletiani: Environmental discourse in Russia - linguistic cultural traditions and contemporary metaphors – Sabine Borovanská: Doing gender by Czech politicians and their partners.

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Beatrix Kreß is assistant professor for intercultural communication at the University of Hildesheim. She studied Slavic languages and literature in Frankfurt am Main and Prague, and received her PhD in Russian and Czech linguistics (the language of conflict in Russian and Czech from a pragmalinguistic perspective).

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