Title:

The term of freedom as perceived in the us-them dichotomy in texts of the soviet ideological subdiscourseabout culture in 1953–1957

Creator:

Zemszał, Piotr

Publisher:

Instytut Języka Polskiego Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Place of publishing:

Kraków

Date issued/created:

2019

Subject and Keywords:

freedom ; liberty ; soviet ideological discourse ; thaw

Abstract:

The term of freedom belongs to crucial social, ethical and moral issues in the Russian languaculture.Its dichotomous structure is reflected in two basic embodiments: воля and свобода. An issue crucialfor understanding its functioning in conditions of totalitarianism is taking into account the actual perceptionof freedom by senders, and an analysis of the rhetorical use of this concept in propaganda and documentarytexts. On a basis of the analysed material it can be said that the dichotomy of свобода — воля, traditionalfor the Russian languaculture, underwent significant reinterpretation under the analysed discourse, firstby elimination of its second components as implying a lack of restrictions, while having a positive meaning,and thus being potentially harmful from the system propaganda point of view, and then by updating the threecategories corresponding to three basic groups mentioned in the discourse. US (FRIENDS) is the firstof these categories, to which настоящая свобода corresponds, THEM (STRANGERS , an external enemyмнимая свобода) form the second of these categories, while the third one describes THEM (STRANGERS, an internal enemy, произвол).

Relation:

Socjolingwistyka

Volume:

33

Start page:

113

End page:

125

Resource type:

Text

Detailed Resource Type:

Article

Format:

PDF

Resource Identifier:

10.17651/SOCJOLING.33.7

Language:

pol

Language of abstract:

eng

Rights:

Rights Reserved - Free Access

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. May be used within the limits of statutory user freedoms

Access:

Open