Karen Gammelgaard

List of John Benjamins publications in which Karen Gammelgaard is involved.

Title

Transforming National Holidays: Identity discourse in the West and South Slavic countries, 1985-2010

Edited by Ljiljana Šarić, Karen Gammelgaard and Kjetil Rå Hauge

How do people construct collective identity during profound societal transformations? This volume examines the discursive construction of identity related to important national holidays in nine countries of Central Europe and the Balkans: Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic,… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 47] 2012. xiii, 314 pp.

Articles

Gammelgaard, Karen 2012 Chapter 10. The Czech and Czechoslovak 28 October: Stability and change in four presidential addresses 1988–2008 Transforming National Holidays: Identity discourse in the West and South Slavic countries, 1985-2010, Šarić, Ljiljana, Karen Gammelgaard and Kjetil Rå Hauge (eds.), pp. 231–250 | Article

Presidential addresses given about the most prominent Czech and Czechoslovak secular holiday, 28 October, contribute noticeably to articulating collective identity. In this chapter, four 28 October addresses are analyzed: one by Czechoslovakia’s last communist president, Gustáv Husák (1988); two by… read more

Gammelgaard, Karen and Ljiljana Šarić 2012 Discursive construction of national holidays in West and South Slavic countries after the fall of communism: Introductory thoughts Transforming National Holidays: Identity discourse in the West and South Slavic countries, 1985-2010, Šarić, Ljiljana, Karen Gammelgaard and Kjetil Rå Hauge (eds.), pp. 5–31 | Article

Gammelgaard, Karen 2008 Coping with Stalinist panegyrics: A semantic and pragmatic analysis of a Czech text Journal of Historical Pragmatics 9:1, pp. 48–70 | Article

This paper discusses a significant text genre in totalitarian societies: panegyrics of the leader. In countries under Stalinist rule, the output of panegyric texts reached immeasurable proportions. Probably due to their uniformity, few attempts have been made to analyse the single panegyric text.… read more