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1. The book about the motherland: analyzing discursive practices

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1. The book about the motherland: analyzing discursive practices

Входимость: 1. Размер: 19кб.

Часть текста: political discourse. Its value is supported by multiple linguistic practices whose figures and symbols can be found both in public and in private discourses of Self and Other. The phraseology of Rodina permeates the Russian discourse of identification throughout its Modern history, starting with Petrine bureaucracy through various political regimes of the empire, through Stalinist society and on till today's languages of the post-communist commercialized mass media. One would be quite justified in believing Rodina to be the „main word" of Russian culture, a total signifier that claims absolute supremacy over identity and dominates the discourse irrespective of those political or economic principles that underlie Russian society during its different historical periods. Being an important element in the ideological lexicon, Rodina, however, is not a mere representation of „false consciousness" and cannot be dismissed as such. This figure supersedes the limits that are...