Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/dBYSLS The Vernaculars of Communism Language, Ideology and Power in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe By: Petre Petrov Publisher: Routledge Print ISBN: 9780815367369, 0815367368 eText ISBN: 9781317647478, 1317647475 Edition: 1st Pages: 244 Copyright year: 2015 Format: EPUB Available from $ 20.78 USD SKU 9781317647478R90 The political revolutions which established state socialism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe were accompanied by revolutions in the word, as the communist project implied not only remaking the world but also renaming it. As new institutions, social roles, rituals and behaviours emerged, so did language practices that designated, articulated and performed these phenomena. This book examines the use of communist language in the Stalinist and post-Stalinist periods. It goes beyond characterising this linguistic variety as crude newspeak, showing how official language was much more complex – the medium through which important political-ideological messages were elaborated, transmitted and also contested, revealing contradictions, discursive cleavages and performative variations. The book examines the subject comparatively across a range of East European countries besides the Soviet Union, and draws on perspectives from a range of scholarly disciplines – sociolinguistics, anthropology, literary and cultural studies, historiography, and translation studies. Petre Petrov is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Texas at Austin. Lara Ryazanova-Clarke is Head of Russian and Academic Director of the Princess Dashkova Russia Centre in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures at the University of Edinburgh. Additional ISBNs 9781317647478, 9781317647485, 9781322506722, 9781317647461, 1317647475, 1317647483, 1322506728, 1317647467, 9781138792357, 1138792357
