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Political languages in the age of extremes / edited by Willibald Steinmetz.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies of the German Historical Institute London
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Communication in politics--History--20th century.
- Communication in politics.
- Language and languages--Political aspects--History--20th century.
- Language and languages.
- Power (Social sciences)--History--20th century.
- Power (Social sciences).
- Sociolinguistics--History--20th century.
- Sociolinguistics.
- History.
- Language and languages--Political aspects.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 408 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Contents:
- Part I Introduction
- 1 New Perspectives on the Study of Language and Power in the Short Twentieth Century / Willibald Steinmetz Steinmetz, Willibald 3
- 2 Politics as Linguistic Performance: Function and Magic of Communicative Practices / Angelika Linke Linke, Angelika 53
- Part II The Rise of the Dictators and the Semantics of Leadership
- 3 Fascistese: The Religious Dimensions of Political Language in Fascist Italy / Emilio Gentile Gentile, Emilio 69
- 4 Visualizing Political Language in the Stalin Cult:The Georgian Art Exhibition at the Tretyakov Gallery / Judith Devlin Devlin, Judith 83
- PartIII .Mind Your Words! Policing Linguistic Boundaries (1920S-1940S)
- 5 Revolutionary Selves: The Russian Intelligentsia from Old to New / Igal Halfin Halfin, Igal 105
- 6 Faced with Death: Gestapo Interrogations and Clemency Pleas in High Treason Trials by the National Socialist Volksgerichtshof / Isabel Richer Richer, Isabel 151
- 7 Policing Tonal Boundaries: Constructing the Nazi/German Enemy on the Wartime BBC / Sian Nicholas Nicholas, Sian 169
- 8 Keep Quiet .But Tell Political Language and the Alert Citizen' in Second World War America / Olaf Stieglitz Stieglitz, Olaf 195
- 9 Telling the Truth: Counter-Discourses in Diaries under Totalitarian Regimes (Nazi Germany and Early GDR) / Heidrun Kamper Kamper, Heidrun 213
- Part IV The Growth of Linguistic Awareness in the Cold War Era
- 10 The Unknown and the Familiar Enemy: The Semantics of Anti-Communism in the USA and Germany, 1945-1975 / Thomas Mergel Mergel, Thomas 245
- 11 Semantic Strategies of Inclusion and Exclusion in the German Democratic Republic (1949-1989)" / Ralph Jessen Jessen, Ralph 275
- 12 War over Words: The Search for a Public-Language in West Germany / Martin H.Geyer H.Geyer, Martin 293
- 13 The Return of Language: Radicalism and the British Historians 1960-1990 / Gareth Stedman Jones Jones, Gareth Stedman 231
- 14 Suppression of the Nazi Past, Coded Languages, and Discourses of Silence: Applying the Discourse-Historical Approach to Post-War Anti-Semitism in Austria / Ruth Wodak Wodak, Ruth 351.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199602964
- 0199602964
- OCLC:
- 713182438
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