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The Art of Commemoration
Fifty years after the Warsaw Uprising
The Art of Commemoration focuses on a particular historical event that illustrates how nations define their own identities and establish mutual relations in their discourse: the Warsaw Uprising of August 1944 and its Commemoration in 1994. This Commemoration was an innovative and unique form of transnational communication because it brought together representative speakers from all parties involved. They considered the commemorated event from different perspectives: the victim (Poland), the former enemy (Germany) and the former allies (England, USA, France and other countries, as well as Russia which liberated Poland but had not supported the Uprising). A letter from the Pope added a Catholic perspective.
The ‘art of commemoration’ consists in invoking the past events from one’s own perspective while simultaneously considering the other perspectives, as well as in making sense of the past and present at the same time. This volume analyses the artful way in which the speakers coped with these complexities in a full discourse analytic reconstruction of each address.
The ‘art of commemoration’ consists in invoking the past events from one’s own perspective while simultaneously considering the other perspectives, as well as in making sense of the past and present at the same time. This volume analyses the artful way in which the speakers coped with these complexities in a full discourse analytic reconstruction of each address.
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 7] 2003. xii, 245 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 21 October 2008
Published online on 21 October 2008
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- Preface | pp. vii–viii
- 1. Facing the past: The commemoration of the Warsaw Uprising on the occasion of its Fiftieth anniversaryTitus Ensink and Christoph Sauer | p. 1
- 2. A discourse analytic approach to the commemorative speeches about the Warsaw UprisingTitus Ensink and Christoph Sauer | p. 19
- 3. The Messianic Warsaw: Mythological framings of political discourse in the address by Lech WałęsaDariusz Galasiński | p. 41
- 4. The search for acceptable perspectives: German President Roman Herzog commemorates the Warsaw UprisingTitus Ensink and Christoph Sauer | p. 57
- 5. A politician’s sociology: US Vice President Gore’s categorisation of the participants in the Warsaw UprisingHarrie Mazeland | p. 95
- 6. Framing the past: An analysis of John Major’s addressChristina Schäffner | p. 116
- 7. From commemoration to self-celebration: Explorations in the interplay of discourse frames and political perspectives in the address by René MonoryDanièle Torck | p. 141
- 8. How the Russians handled a problem: The Warsaw Uprising in Sergey Filatov’s addressKlaus Steinke | p. 173
- 9. Merging frames: A frame analysis of the South African, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand addressesA.J. Koole | p. 193
- 10. Pope John Paul II as a Polish Patriot: The Pope’s letter in commemoration of the Warsaw UprisingKlaus Steinke | p. 212
- 11. The politics of public memory: The commemoration of the Second World War in a historical and comparative perspectiveFrank van Vree | p. 223
- Index | pp. 243–245
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