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Title The post-communist condition : public and private discourses of transformation / edited by Aleksandra Galasińska, Dariusz Galasiński.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, Pa. : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2010.

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 264 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Discourse approaches to politics, society and culture, 1569-9463 ; v. 37
Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture ; v. 37.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Living between history and the present: the Polish post-communist condition / Aleksandra Galasińska & Dariusz Galasiński -- Part I: History and ideology at work. "Nie rzucim ziemi skad nasz ród" : Polish contemporary discourses about soil and nation / Michał Buchowski -- Collective memory in transition : commemorating the end of the Second World War in Poland / Anna Horolets -- "In the name of the truth one has to say--" : anti-Semitic statements in the memorial discourse about the crosses in Auschwitz / Imke Hansen -- Sitting on the fence : identity and Polish narratives of the 1st-May celebrations / Dariusz Galasiński -- Part II: Mentors and mediators. Denying the right to speak in public : sexist and homophobic discourses in post-1989 Poland / Natalia Krzyżanowska -- Discursive construction of post-communism in pastoral letters of the Polish Episcopate's Conference 1990-2005 / Katarzyna Skowronek -- Fashioning a post-communist political identity : the case of Poland's democratic left alliance / Robert Brier -- Power, knowledge and faith discourse : the Institute of National Remembrance / Marta Kurkowska-Budzan -- Part III: Living post-communism. It's all about work / Aleksandra Galasinska -- Transition to nowhere : homelessness in post-communist Poland as the hand of fate / Maria Mendel & Tomasz Szkudlarek -- New discourses of migration in post-communist Poland : conceptual metaphors and personal narratives in the reconstruction of the hegemonic discourse / Małgorzata Fabiszak -- Post-communist masculinities / Dariusz Galasiński.
Summary This volume offers interdisciplinary perspectives on discourses in one national context of post-communist transformation. Proposing a macro-micro approach to discourse analysis and transformation, it examines a spectrum of topics including Polish history, with its 'interpreters'; changes in political bodies and the media, policies of the Catholic Church and the Institute of National Remembrance; xenophobia and anti-Semitism, with the emergence of unemployment and homelessness; experiences of new gender relations and migrations. In effect, drawing upon unique sets of data, the book shows how po.
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Subject Discourse analysis -- Poland.
Discourse analysis.
Poland.
Discourse analysis -- Political aspects -- Poland.
Discourse analysis -- Political aspects.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Galasińska, Aleksandra.
Galasiński, Dariusz.
Other Form: Print version: Post-communist condition. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, Pa. : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2010 9789027206282 (DLC) 2010009953 (OCoLC)548569645
ISBN 9789027288172 (electronic book)
9027288178 (electronic book)
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9789027206282 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
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9781281042514
9789027206282 (hardback ; alkaline paper)