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Totalitarian Communication: Hierarchies, Codes and Messages
Kirill Postoutenko
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Paperback. Editor(s): Postoutenko, Kirill. Num Pages: 320 pages, 29 b/w illus. BIC Classification: HBJD; JPFQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 137 x 23. Weight in Grams: 396.
Totalitarianism has been an object of extensive communicative research since its heyday: already in the late 1930s, such major cultural figures as George Orwell or Hannah Arendt were busy describing the visual and verbal languages of Stalinism and Nazism. After the war, many fashionable trends in social sciences and humanities (ranging from Begriffsgeschichte and Ego-Documentology to Critical Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis) were called upon to continue this media-centered trend in the face of increasing political determination of the burgeoing field. Nevertheless, the integration of historical, sociological and linguistic knowledge about totalitarian society on a firm factual ground remains the ... Read more
Totalitarianism has been an object of extensive communicative research since its heyday: already in the late 1930s, such major cultural figures as George Orwell or Hannah Arendt were busy describing the visual and verbal languages of Stalinism and Nazism. After the war, many fashionable trends in social sciences and humanities (ranging from Begriffsgeschichte and Ego-Documentology to Critical Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis) were called upon to continue this media-centered trend in the face of increasing political determination of the burgeoing field. Nevertheless, the integration of historical, sociological and linguistic knowledge about totalitarian society on a firm factual ground remains the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Transcript Verlag
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Weight
396g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
, Germany
ISBN
9783837613933
SKU
V9783837613933
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About Kirill Postoutenko
Kirill Postoutenko (PhD) teaches literature, sociology and anthropology at the Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in Saint-Petersburg and is currently a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Paris.
Reviews for Totalitarian Communication: Hierarchies, Codes and Messages
»Die einzelnen Beiträge [...] bieten [...] ein facettenreiches Bild von kommunikativen Praktiken und asymmetrischen Öffentlichkeiten in Diktaturen, wobei der Schwerpunkt der Beiträge auf der ehemaligen Sowjetunion liegt. Anregend wird der Band aber durch die Einbeziehung von Beispielen aus den USA, Frankreich, Großbritannien, einem Überblick über Diskurse zu Folterungen (von der Antike bis zu den Anschlägen am 11. September 2001 in ... Read more