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This book is unique in its kind. It is the first scholarly work to
attempt a comprehensive and fairly 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 gives also new and interesting insights into the ways the
new, 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 or
chapters and an introduction. Chapter 1 discusses patterns of
continuity and change in the conceptual apparatus and linguistic
habits of political science and sociology practiced in the Czech
Republic before and after 1989. Chapter 2 analyzes lingering
effects of communist propaganda language in the political discourse
and behavior in post-communist Poland. Chapter 3 analyzes the
legacy of Soviet semantics in post-Soviet Moldovan politics through
the prism of such politically contested words as "democracy,"
"democratization," and "people." Chapters 4 and 5 discuss the way
in which communist patterns of thought and expression manifest
themselves in the new political discourse in Romania and Bulgaria,
respectively. Chapter 6 examines phenomena of change and continuity
in the socio-linguistic and socio-political scene of post-Soviet
Latvia. Chapter 7 analyzes the extent to which the language of the
post-communist Romanian media differs from the official language of
the communist era. Chapter 8 examines the evolution of Russian
official discourse since the late eighties with a view of showing
"whether or not new phenomena in the evolution of post-Soviet
discourse represent new development or just a mutation of the
value-orientations of the old Soviet ideological apparatus."
Chapter 9 gives a detailed and lucid account of the evolution of
both official and non-official discourse in China since the end of
the Mao era.
How does a trauma survivor communicate "what can't be said out
loud" to others? In what form? How can we - readers, listeners,
viewers - recognize the pain and suffering hidden behind words,
pictures, or other artifacts produced by trauma survivors? This
volume presents a possible response by bringing together the
"expressions of the unspeakable" by trauma survivors and the
interpretation of researchers in various fields, i.e. clinical
psychologists, linguists, anthropologists, literary and film
scholars, historians, and visual artists, some of whom are
survivors of trauma. By describing or analyzing different
strategies for finding a narrative form for expressing the
survivor's trauma, the contributors offer not only insights into
how the survivors dealt with the pain of traumatic memories but
also how they were able to find hope for healing by telling their
stories, in literature, graphic novels, visual art or simply by
creating a personal narrative in their own voice.
The relationship between language and various kinds of
non-linguistic behavior has been of great fascination for many of
those working in the fields of cultural anthropology, linguistics,
and philosophy, or, broadly understood, cultural studies. The
authors in this volume explore this relationship in a number of
cultures and social contexts and discuss the problem of linguistic
relativism and its application to several areas of social
interaction across cultures. The authors deal with such questions
as how language and culture intersect resulting in different points
of view on reality that are all equally authentic and rooted in
experience. The question of the influence of language and culture
on our perceptino of physical and social reality is re-examined for
such domains as politics, commerce, working with people, religion,
and gender relations.
The relationship between language and various kinds of
non-linguistic behaviour has been of great fascination for many of
those working in the fields of cultural anthropology, linguistics,
and philosophy or, broadly understood, cultural studies. The
authors in this volume explore this relationship in a number of
cultures and social contexts and discuss the problem of linguistic
relativism and its application to a several areas of social
interaction across cultures. The authors deal with such questions
as how language and culture intersect resulting in different points
of view on reality that are all equally authentic and rooted in
experience. The question of the influence of language and culture
on our perception of physical and social reality is re-examined for
such domains as politics, commerce, working with people, religion,
and gender relations.
Frankfurt/M., Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien.
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