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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.
Who are the Moldovans? The Language of the Moldovans explores this
question from the perspective of debates about the languages spoken
by the people of this ex-Soviet state. Locating language as a
central point of both cohesion and conflict in the region's recent
history, the peculiarities of the Moldovans are illustrated by a
survey of language attitudes, a series of ethnographic interviews,
and extensive observations by the author. The result is an image of
an emerging nation that is, at once, similar to the experiences of
other ex-Soviet states and uniquely complex. Much of that
complexity lies in the population's extensive multilingualism and
in uncertainty about the Romanian-ness of the official language.
This cross-discipline volume is of great interest to advanced
students and researchers of linguistics, political science, and
Eastern European studies.
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