Overview

Offers interdisciplinary perspectives on discourses in one national context of post-communist transformation. This title examines a spectrum of topics including Polish history, with its 'interpreters'; changes in political bodies and the media, policies of the Catholic Church and the Institute of National Remembrance.

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Author:   Aleksandra Galasińska (University of Wolverhampton) ,  Dariusz Galasiński (University of Wolverhampton)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   37
Weight:   0.670kg
ISBN:  

9789027206282

ISBN 10:   9027206287
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   17 June 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock  
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Table of Contents

1. Notes on contributors; 2. Table and figure; 3. Living between history and the present: The Polish post-communist condition (by Galasinska, Aleksandra); 4. Part I. History and ideology at work; 5. Nie rzucim ziemi skad nasz rod : Polish contemporary discourses about soil and nation (by Buchowski, Michal); 6. Collective memory in transition: Commemorating the end of the Second World War in Poland (by Horolets, Anna); 7. In the name of the truth one has to say... : Anti-Semitic statements in the memorial discourse about the crosses in Auschwitz (by Hansen, Imke); 8. Sitting on the fence: Identity and Polish narratives of the 1st-May celebrations (by Galasinski, Dariusz); 9. Part II. Mentors and mediators; 10. Denying the right to speak in public: Sexist and homophobic discourses in post-1989 Poland (by Krzyzanowska, Natalia); 11. Discursive construction of post-communism in pastoral letters of the Polish Episcopate's Conference 1990-2005 (by Skowronek, Katarzyna); 12. Fashioning a post-communist political identity: The case of Poland's Democratic Left Alliance (by Brier, Robert); 13. Power, knowledge and faith discourse: The Institute of National Remembrance (by Kurkowska-Budzan, Marta); 14. Part III. Living post-communism; 15. It's all about work (by Galasinska, Aleksandra); 16. Transition to nowhere: Homelessness in post-communist Poland as the hand of fate (by Mendel, Maria); 17. New discourses of migration in post-communist Poland: Conceptual metaphors and personal narratives in the reconstruction of the hegemonic discourse (by Fabiszak, Malgorzata); 18. Post-communist masculinities (by Galasinski, Dariusz); 19. Index

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