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dc.contributor.authorDickins, Tom
dc.date.accessioned2017-11-09T15:20:49Z
dc.date.available2017-11-09T15:20:49Z
dc.date.issued2016-10-18
dc.identifier.citationDickins, T. (2016) The Linguistic and Rhetorical Legacy of the Prague Spring: Reading the Czechoslovak Communist Party Daily, Rudé právo, from the Late 1980s, Central Europe 14 (1), pp. 26-48.
dc.identifier.issn1479-0963
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/14790963.2016.1235881
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2436/620830
dc.descriptionThis is an accepted manuscript of an article published by Taylor and Francis in Central Europe on 18/10/2016, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14790963.2016.1235881 The accepted version of the publication may differ from the final published version.en
dc.description.abstractThis study uses a corpus-informed lexicological approach to analyse texts published in the Czechoslovak Communist Party daily Rudé právo during the final years of Communist rule in Czechoslovakia. The analysis aims to uncover how far such texts represented a departure from or a reaffirmation of the norms of the pre-Gorbachev era and, in particular, the role that they played in the Party’s attempt to control interpretations of the 1968 Prague Spring. The investigation also considers ways in which the texts sought to construct a ‘new’ reality in the light of the changes in the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact countries. The article maintains that the ‘authoritative discourse’ model represents an especially useful analytical framework for evaluating the impact of ideological language in the context of the Communist system. The model both helps to explain the relative acquiescence of most of the population, and also to track the extent to which the ‘coded’ message of the approved discourse was successful in slowing the demise of the regime.
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis
dc.relation.urlhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14790963.2016.1235881
dc.subjectCzechoslovak Communism
dc.subjectNormalization
dc.subjectPrague Spring
dc.subjectpolitical rhetoric
dc.subjectideological language
dc.subjectRudé právo
dc.subjectPoučení
dc.subjectVáclav Havel
dc.subjectMiloš Jakeš
dc.titleThe Linguistic and Rhetorical Legacy of the Prague Spring: Reading the Czechoslovak Communist Party Daily, Rudé právo, from the Late 1980s
dc.typeJournal article
dc.identifier.journalCentral Europe
dc.date.accepted2016-09-30
rioxxterms.funderJisc
rioxxterms.identifier.projectUOW091117TD
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rioxxterms.licenseref.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2018-10-18
dc.source.volume14
dc.source.issue1
dc.source.beginpage26
dc.source.endpage48
refterms.dateFCD2018-10-19T08:32:40Z
refterms.versionFCDVoR
refterms.dateFOA2018-10-18T00:00:00Z
html.description.abstractThis study uses a corpus-informed lexicological approach to analyse texts published in the Czechoslovak Communist Party daily Rudé právo during the final years of Communist rule in Czechoslovakia. The analysis aims to uncover how far such texts represented a departure from or a reaffirmation of the norms of the pre-Gorbachev era and, in particular, the role that they played in the Party’s attempt to control interpretations of the 1968 Prague Spring. The investigation also considers ways in which the texts sought to construct a ‘new’ reality in the light of the changes in the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact countries. The article maintains that the ‘authoritative discourse’ model represents an especially useful analytical framework for evaluating the impact of ideological language in the context of the Communist system. The model both helps to explain the relative acquiescence of most of the population, and also to track the extent to which the ‘coded’ message of the approved discourse was successful in slowing the demise of the regime.


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