Legacies of totalitarian language in the discourse culture of the post-totalitarian era
Subtitle: the case of Eastern Europe, Russia, and China
By: [edited by] Ernest Andrews
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780739164655; 9780739164679
Subjects: Languages; Post-communism; Totalitarianism; Case studies; Discourse analysis
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The absent past : the language of Czech sociology before and after 1989 / Marek Skovajsa; title: The linguistic legacy of the communist propaganda in post-communist thought patterns : the case of Poland / Magda Stroinska; title: What does democracy mean in Moldova? : political discourse around contested words in the disputed elections of 2009 / Matthew H. Ciscel; title: The language of Romanian post-communist politics twenty years after : linguistic memories of a communist past / Cosmina Tanasoiu; title: Newspeak in the language of politics in the post-totalitarian era : the case of Bulgaria / Rossen Vassilev; title: Intertwining legacies : language and socio-cultural change in post-Soviet Latvia / Andrejs Plakans; title: The language of the media in post-communist Romania / Marius Dragomir; title: Changes and continuities / Norina Solomon; title: Official ideological discourse in pre-transition and post-communist Russia : what has really changed since the communist period? / Ekaterina Levintova; title: Language, state, and society in post-Mao China : continuity and change / Ji Fengyuan.