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• Title:Political languages in the age of extremes / edited by Willibald Steinmetz.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Steinmetz, Willibald.
  German Historical Institute in London.
  
• Published/Created:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: JA85 .P654 2011
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Communication in politics--History--20th century.
  Language and languages--Political aspects--History--20th century.
  Power (Social sciences)--History--20th century.
  Sociolinguistics--History--20th century.
  
• Description:xii, 408 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 22 cm.
  
• Series:Studies of the German Historical Institute London.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780199602964 (hbk.)
  0199602964 (hbk.)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. I Introduction
  1. New Perspectives on the Study of Language and Power in the Short Twentieth Century / Willibald Steinmetz
  2. Politics as Linguistic Performance: Function and `Magic' of Communicative Practices / Angelika Linke
  pt. II Rise of the Dictators and the Semantics of Leadership
  3. Fascistese: The Religious Dimensions of Political Language in Fascist Italy / Emilio Gentile
  4. Visualizing Political Language in the Stalin Cult: The Georgian Art Exhibition at the Tretyakov Gallery / Judith Devlin
  pt. III Mind Your Words! Policing Linguistic Boundaries (1920s-1940s)
  5. Revolutionary Selves: The Russian Intelligentsia from Old to New / Igal Halfin
  6. Faced with Death: Gestapo Interrogations and Clemency Pleas in High Treason Trials by the National Socialist Volksgerichtshof / Isabel Richter
  7. Policing Tonal Boundaries: Constructing the Nazi/German Enemy on the Wartime BBC / Sian Nicholas
  8. Keep Quiet... But Tell!! Political Language and the `Alert Citizen' in Second World War America / Olaf Stieglitz
  9. Telling the Truth: Counter-Discourses in Diaries under Totalitarian Regimes (Nazi Germany and Early GDR) / Heidrun Kamper
  pt. IV Growth of Linguistic Awareness in the Cold War Era
  10. Unknown and the Familiar Enemy: The Semantics of Anti-Communism in the USA and Germany, 1945-1975 / Thomas Mergel
  11. Semantic Strategies of Inclusion and Exclusion in the German Democratic Republic (1949-1989) / Ralph Jessen
  12. War over Words: The Search for a Public Language in West Germany / Martin H. Geyer
  13. Return of Language: Radicalism and the British Historians 1960-1990 / Gareth Stedman Jones
  14. Suppression of the Nazi Past, Coded Languages, and Discourses of Silence: Applying the Discourse-Historical Approach to Post-War Anti-Semitism in Austria / Ruth Wodak.