This edited book fills a void in the existing research concerning anti-communist movements in Central and Eastern Europe, outlining the linguistic implications of the cultural, social and political metamorphoses brought about by the (change of) regime. The authors included in this volume approach the topic from a variety of perspectives, but, ultimately, focus on language seen as a fundamental tool for simultaneously subjugating and liberating, concealing and revealing truth, discouraging dissidence and fostering revolt. Readers are invited to discover the linguistic implications of the many shapes and forms that the 1989 anti-communist revolutions took. Equally interesting are the investigations of the revolution aftermath, in the first years of transition to democracy. Perceived as a whole throughout the Cold War (1947-1991), the so-called "Eastern Bloc" managed to reveal its heterogeneity, the singularity of each of its comprising states and the multitude of its internal contrasts, most vividly perhaps, in the manifold manifestations of the 1989 anti-communist fight. This book will be of interest to academics and researchers from various fields, including history, (socio)linguistics, political studies, and conflict studies.
Introduction.- Narratives of discord: misinformation, dissimulation,
truth.- Voices from Below. Propaganda and Petitioning Power in Late Socialist
Romania (Mioara Anton).- The Great Discursive Divide in Communist Romania
(Veronica Manole).- Words that Must Not Be Named: Narratives of Language,
Power, and Identity in Communist Romania (Réka Lugossy).- Compromise or
Survival. Adapting the Religious Discourse and the Topics Covered in
Publications of the Romanian Orthodox Church during the Communist Regime
(Clin Emilian Cira).- The Founding Texts of a Revolution. Romania 1989
(Kazimierz Jurczak).- Words at war: expressive forms of resistance,
dissidence and protest.- The Language of Inner Freedom for Dissent: Müller
and Liiceanu before and after the Revolution (Jonathan Lahey
Dronsfield).- The Rhetoric of Albanian Insurgency: Communism and Anti-
Communism in Kosovo (Henrique Schneider).- The Change of Worlds and Words.
The Language of Protest during and after the Romanian Revolution in 1989
(Dina Vīlcu).- Written, spoken, performed: archiving the memory of
(post-)communism.- Humility and Hatred, Forgiveness and Hope. A Linguistic
Approach on the Subjective Literary Experiences in the Romanian Communist
Society (Maria-Zoica Eugenia Balaban).- Retrieving Memory via Desk-Drawer
Literature: from Reality Escapism in Stories about Cadmav to Contemporary
Reflective Writing in With My Womans Mind (Ioana Mudure-Iacob).- Surviving
the Change, Adjusting the Language. Romanian Writers in the Cultural Media,
December 1989-1990 (Magdalena Rdu, Oana Fotache).- The December 1989
Revolution in Post-Communist Romanian Drama (Anca Haiegan).- Staging
Communism in Romania: Language, Propaganda, Memory in Caryl Churchills Mad
Forest and Matei Viniecs How to Explain the History of Communism to Mental
Patients (Alina Cojocaru).- The Language of the Velvet Revolution versus the
Anti-Language of Post- Communist Crime. A Sociolinguistic Analysis of
Contemporary Czech Crime Historical Television Series (Lubo
Ptįek).- Surprising Silence? Possible Reasons for Scarcity of Representation
of the Velvet Revolution in Czech Film Adaptations in the 1990s (Radoslav
Horįk).- Comparing the Portrayal of the Fall of the Berlin Wall in Two
Spanish Newspapers: A Multimodal Analysis (Samira Allani, Silvia
Molina-Plaza).- Borghesia and Laibach against the Socialist Regime of
Yugoslavia: Insights from a Socio-Linguistic Analysis (Mitja
Stefancic).- Conclusions.
Eugen Wohl is Lecturer within the Department of Foreign Languages for Specific Purposes, Faculty of Letters, Babe-Bolyai University of Cluj, Romania and a theatre critic (IATC member).
Elena Pcurar is Lecturer within the Department of Foreign Languages for Specific Purposes, Faculty of Letters, Babe-Bolyai University of Cluj, Romania, where she teaches practical courses of English for Specific Purposes.
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