Legacies of Totalitarian Language in the Discourse Culture of the Post-Totalitarian Era The Case of Eastern Europe, Russia, and China

by Andrews, Ernest; Ciscel, Matthew H.; Dragomir, Marius; Ji, Fengyuan; Levintova, Ekaterina; Plakans, Andrejs; Skovajsa, Marek; Solomon, Norina; Stroinska, Magda; Tanasoiu, Cosmina; Vassilev, Rossen

• ISBN13: 9780739164655
• ISBN10: 0739164651
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-05-19
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

This book is unique among its kind-it is the first scholarly work to attempt a comprehensive and detailed look into the lingering legacies of the Communist totalitarian modes of thought and expression in the new discourse forms of the post-totalitarian era. The book also gives new and interesting insights into the ways the presumably democratically minded political elites in post-totalitarian Eastern Europe, Russia, and China manipulate language to serve their own political and economic agendas. The book consists of ten discrete discussions: nine case-studies and an introduction.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
The Absent Past: The Language of Czech Sociology Before and After 1989	p. 15
The Linguistic Legacy of the Communist Propaganda in Post Communist Thought Patterns: The Case of Poland	p. 39
What Does Democracy Mean in Moldova?: Political Discourse Around Contested Words in the Disputed Elections of 2009	p. 55
The Language of Romanian Post-Communist Politics Twenty Years After: Linguistic Memories of a Communist Past	p. 77
Newspeak in the Language of Politics in the Post Totalitarian Era: The Case of Bulgaria	p. 99
Intertwining Legacies: Language and Socio-Cultural Change in Post-Soviet Latvia	p. 121
The Language of the Media in Post-Communist Romania: Changes and Continuities	p. 141
Official Ideological Discourse in Pre-Transition and Post Communist Russia: What Has Really Changed since the Communist Period?	p. 155
Language, State, and Society in Post Mao China: Continuity and Change	p. 183
Index	p. 209
About the Contributors	p. 215
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