Totalitarian Political Discourse?

Contents: Beatrix Kreß: Introduction - Holger Kuße: Emotive signs and evaluation in totalitarian language: About Bexu and Andrey Vysinskij - Claudia Woldt: Deontic modality in political discourse - expressions of tolerance and intolerance in Czech parliamentary debates before and after 1989 - Vladislava Warditz: Totalitarianism - Anti-totalitarianism - Post-totaliarianism? A historical perspective on totalitarian discourse in Russian linguistics - Karen Gammelgaard: Totalitarian self-designation: the case of jednota in the Czech totalitarian register 1948-1953 - Dmitrij Dobrovol'skij/Ludmila Pöppel: The semantic field of POWER and political propaganda: (revolution) vs. (coup) and (uprising) vs. (revolt) - Tora Hedin: Changing media discourse - the Czech daily Rudé právo in the Stalinist years - Ioulia Grigorieva: Moralizing speech acts in German and Russian print media during the 2008 South Ossetia War - Beatrix Kreß: Is there a totalitarian language in non-totalitarian states? - Marina Scharlaj: Personalization, visualization and McDonaldization of power in Belarus - Liana Goletiani: Environmental discourse in Russia - linguistic cultural traditions and contemporary metaphors - Sabine Borovanská: Doing gender by Czech politicians and their partners.

Beatrix Kreß is assistant professor for intercultural communication at the University of Hildesheim. She studied Slavic languages and literature in Frankfurt am Main and Prague, and received her PhD in Russian and Czech linguistics (the language of conflict in Russian and Czech from a pragmalinguistic perspective).