This volume explores the relationship between language and political power inthe Age of Extremes. Topics include leadership cults under Stalin and Mussolini, depictions of enemies, secret diary-writing under Nazism, and the defence strategies of Soviet party members and Gestapo prisoners. INDICE: Part I. Introduction; 1: Willibald Steinmetz: New Perspectives on the Study of Language and Power in the Short Twentieth Century; 2: Angelika Linke: Politics as Linguistic Performance: Function and 'Magic' of CommunicativePractices; Part II. The Rise of the Dictators and the Semantics of Leadership; 3: Emilio Gentile: Fascistese: The Religious Dimensions of Political Language in Fascist Italy; 4: Judith Devlin: Visualizing Political Language in the Stalin Cult: The Georgian Art Exhibition at the Tretyakov Gallery; Part III. Mind your Words! Policing Linguistic Boundaries (1920s-40s); 5: Igal Halfin: Revolutionary Selves: The Russian Intelligentsia from Old to New; 6: Isabel Richter: Faced with Death: Gestapo Interrogations and Clemency Pleas in High TreasonTrials by the National Socialist Volksgerichtshof; 7: Síân Nicholas: PolicingTonal Boundaries: Constructing the Nazi/German Enemy on the Wartime BBC; 8: Olaf Stieglitz: Keep Quiet. But Tell!! Political Language and the 'Alert Citizen' in Second World War America; 9: Heidrun Kämper: Telling the Truth: Counter-Discourses in Diaries under Totalitarian Regimes (Nazi Germany and Early GDR);Part IV. The Growth of Linguistic Awareness in the Cold War Era; 10: Thomas Mergel: The Unknown and the Familiar Enemy: The Semantics of Anti-Communism in the USA and Germany, 1945-75; 11: Ralph Jessen: Semantic Strategies of Inclusion and Exclusion in the German Democratic Republic (1949-89); 12: Martin H. Geyer: War over Words: The Search for a Public Language in West Germany; 13: Gareth Stedman Jones: The Return of Language: Radicalism and the British Historians 1960-90; 14: Ruth Wodak: Suppression of the Nazi Past, Coded Languages, andDiscourse of Silence: Applying the Discourse-Historical Approach to Post-War Anti-Semitism in Austria
- ISBN: 978-0-19-960296-4
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 416
- Fecha Publicación: 01/05/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés