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In:Political Discourse in Transition in Europe 1989–1991
Edited by Paul Chilton, Mikhail V. Ilyin and Jacob L. Mey
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 36] 1998
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Published online: 15 March 1998
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Table of contents

Acknowledgmentsvii
Prefaceix
Note on Contributorsxi
Introduction: Political Discourse and the European Transformation1
A Chronology of Change3
Making Sense of the Cold War’s Collapse15
The Pragmatics of Transition25
I. The Collapse of Soviet Discourse
The Collapse of Empire and Search for Cultural Identity37
Processes of Political Communication in the USSR51
The Restructuring of Soviet Political Discourse69
II. Political Vocabulary in Transition
From Comrades to Consumers: Interpersonal Aspects of the Lexicon87
Breakthrough and Blind Alley: The Lexicon of Perestroika95
Opposition Discourse in Russia: Political Pamphlets 1989–91111
Justice, Equality and Freedom: The Structure of Value Concepts131
Continuity and Change: German Discourse after Unification147
Translating the Transition: What is the Russian for ‘Perestroika’?173
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III. Discourse, Identity and Conflict
The Construction of Nation and State: Discourse and Social Space191
Cognitive Dimensions of Identity: Ethnic Stereotypes in Poland215
Defining Democracy: Transitional Discourse in Georgia 1990–91233
Language and Identity in Bosnia-Herzegovina251
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