ISBN:
978-1-138-79235-7
Language:
English
Pages:
XII, 229 Seiten.
Edition:
1. publ.
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in the history of Russia and Eastern Europe 21
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in the history of Russia and Eastern Europe
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
335.4301/4
Keywords:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General
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Geschichte
;
Gesellschaft
;
Kommunismus
;
Politik
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General
;
Language policy History
;
Language policy History
;
Communism and linguistics History
;
Communism and linguistics History
;
Communism Social aspects
;
History
;
Communism Social aspects
;
History
;
Power (Social sciences) History
;
Power (Social sciences) History
;
Kommunismus.
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Ideologie.
;
Politische Soziologie.
;
Macht.
;
Sprachpolitik.
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Sprachgebrauch.
;
Linguistic Turn.
;
Sowjetunion
;
Soviet Union Politics and government
;
Europe, Eastern Politics and government 1945-1989
;
Ostblock.
;
Kommunismus
;
Ideologie
;
Politische Soziologie
;
Macht
;
Sprachpolitik
;
Sprachgebrauch
;
Linguistic Turn
Abstract:
"The political revolutions which established state socialism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe were accompanied by revolutions in the word, as the communist project implied not only remaking the world but also renaming it. As new institutions, social roles, rituals and behaviours emerged, so did language practices that designated, articulated and performed these phenomena. This book examines the use of communist language in the Stalinist and post-Stalinist periods. It goes beyond characterising this linguistic variety as crude 'newspeak,' showing how official language was much more complex...the medium through which important political-ideological messages were elaborated, transmitted and also contested, revealing contradictions, discursive cleavages and performative variations. The book examines the subject comparatively across a range of East European countries besides the Soviet Union, and draws on perspectives from a range of scholarly disciplines...sociolinguistics, anthropology, literary and cultural studies, historiography, and translation studies"..
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
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