Language of the Revolution: The Discourse of Anti-Communist Movements in the "Eastern Bloc" Countries: Case Studies

In: Palgrave Studies in Languages at War

Abstract

Introduction -- Narratives of discord: misinformation, dissimulation, truth -- Voices from Below. Propaganda and Petitioning Power in Late Socialist Romania (Mioara Anton) -- The Great Discursive Divide in Communist Romania (Veronica Manole) -- "Words that Must Not Be Named": Narratives of Language, Power, and Identity in Communist Romania (Réka Lugossy) -- Compromise or Survival. Adapting the Religious Discourse and the Topics Covered in Publications of the Romanian Orthodox Church during the Communist Regime (Călin Emilian Cira) -- The Founding Texts of a Revolution. Romania 1989 (Kazimierz Jurczak) -- Words at war: expressive forms of resistance, dissidence and protest -- The Language of Inner Freedom for Dissent: Müller and Liiceanu before and after the Revolution (Jonathan Lahey Dronsfield) -- The Rhetoric of Albanian Insurgency: Communism and Anti- Communism in Kosovo (Henrique Schneider) -- The Change of Worlds and Words. The Language of Protest during and after the Romanian Revolution in 1989 (Dina Vîlcu) -- Written, spoken, performed: archiving the memory of (post-)communism -- Humility and Hatred, Forgiveness and Hope. A Linguistic Approach on the Subjective Literary Experiences in the Romanian Communist Society (Maria-Zoica Eugenia Balaban) -- Retrieving Memory via Desk-Drawer Literature: from Reality Escapism in Stories about Cadmav to Contemporary Reflective Writing in With My Woman's Mind (Ioana Mudure-Iacob) -- Surviving the Change, Adjusting the Language. Romanian Writers in the Cultural Media, December 1989-1990 (Magdalena Răduță, Oana Fotache) -- The December 1989 Revolution in Post-Communist Romanian Drama (Anca Hațiegan) -- Staging Communism in Romania: Language, Propaganda, Memory in Caryl Churchill's Mad Forest and Matei Vișniec's How to Explain the History of Communism to Mental Patients (Alina Cojocaru) -- The Language of the Velvet Revolution versus the Anti-Language of Post- Communist Crime. A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Contemporary Czech Crime Historical Television Series (Luboš Ptáček) -- Surprising Silence? Possible Reasons for Scarcity of Representation of the Velvet Revolution in Czech Film Adaptations in the 1990s (Radoslav Horák) -- Comparing the Portrayal of the Fall of the Berlin Wall in Two Spanish Newspapers: A Multimodal Analysis (Samira Allani, Silvia Molina-Plaza) -- Borghesia and Laibach against the Socialist Regime of Yugoslavia: Insights from a Socio-Linguistic Analysis (Mitja Stefancic) -- Conclusions.