scholarly journals POLITICAL DISCOURSE IN EAST-EUROPEAN LINGUISTICS: THE ADDRESSEE ASPECT

2021 ◽  
pp. 68-78
Author(s):  
Anna Kuznyetsova
Keyword(s):  
Political Discourse ◽  
University Research ◽  
The Political ◽  
East European ◽  
Contemporary State ◽  
Research Material ◽  
History Of ◽  
Belles Lettres

The article deals with the review of contemporary state of the study of the political discourse addressee category in the works of East-European linguists; the topicality and importance of the study of the addressee category is substantiated. Inadequate attention towards the research of the discourse addressee constituent in comparison to the text constituent and the forwarder constituent of the political discourse is pointed out. The necessary connection with the addressness (targeting) category in the study of the political discourse addressee constituent is emphasized. The paper includes a brief history of the research of the addressness (targeting) category, as it is the basis of the study of the political discourse addressee phenomenon. It is shown that the attention to an addressee as a category appeared in linguistics quite a while ago and can be attributed primarily to the works of M. Bakhtin and Yu. Lotman, owing to who the interest to the category in question was spread throughout other European linguistic schools and university research departments. Notwithstanding its long history, the categorical features of text and discourse targeting are still not formulated clearly enough, either in linguistic or in non-linguistic paradigms; however, the necessity of the multi-paradigm studies is acknowledged. There exist a few papers, published within the last decade, in which certain attempts were made to outline and determine categorical features of the addressee category. However, they either dealt with other kinds of discourse, for instance, with the belles-lettres one, or were made on a limited research material. Hence, the category in question remains poorly studied, and this fact only emphasizes the timeliness of its further research.

Muscovy and the Tatars

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 403-431
Author(s):  
Bulat R. Rakhimzianov
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
The Political ◽  
East European ◽  
Central Eurasia ◽  
History Of ◽  
Mutual Relations ◽  
Forest Line ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract This article explores relations between Muscovy and the so-called Later Golden Horde successor states that existed during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries on the territory of Desht-i Qipchaq (the Qipchaq Steppe, a part of the East European steppe bounded roughly by the Oskol and Tobol rivers, the steppe-forest line, and the Caspian and Aral Seas). As a part of, and later a successor to, the Juchid ulus (also known as the Golden Horde), Muscovy adopted a number of its political and social institutions. The most crucial events in the almost six-century-long history of relations between Muscovy and the Tatars (13–18th centuries) were the Mongol invasion of the Northern, Eastern and parts of the Southern Rus’ principalities between 1237 and 1241, and the Muscovite annexation of the Kazan and Astrakhan khanates between 1552 and 1556. According to the model proposed here, the Tatars began as the dominant partner in these mutual relations; however, from the beginning of the seventeenth century this role was gradually inverted. Indicators of a change in the relationship between the Muscovite grand principality and the Golden Horde can be found in the diplomatic contacts between Muscovy and the Tatar khanates. The main goal of the article is to reveal the changing position of Muscovy within the system of the Later Golden Horde successor states. An additional goal is to revisit the role of the Tatar khanates in the political history of Central Eurasia in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

Seneca the Elder, the Controuersia Figurata, and the Political Discourse of the Early Empire

2021 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 118-150
Author(s):  
Matthew Leigh
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Roman History ◽  
The Political ◽  
Turn On ◽  
Specific Event ◽  
Imperial Period ◽  
History Of ◽  
Seneca The Elder

This paper studies examples of how exponents of Roman declamation could insert into arguments on the trivial, even fantastic, cases known as controuersiae statements of striking relevance to the political culture of the triumviral and early imperial period. This is particularly apparent in the Controuersiae of Seneca the Elder but some traces remain in the Minor Declamations attributed to Quintilian. The boundaries separating Rome itself from the declamatory city referred to by modern scholars as Sophistopolis are significantly blurred even in those instances where the exercise does not turn on a specific event from Roman history, and there is much to be gained from how the declaimers deploy Roman historical examples. Some of the most sophisticated instances of mediated political comment exploit the employment of universalizing sententiae, which have considerable bite when they are related to contemporary Roman discourse and experience. The declamation schools are a forum for thinking through the implications of the transformation of the Roman state and deserve a place within any history of Roman political thought.

scholarly journals Polotia recepta. Mapa Księstwa Połockiego – teksty i preteksty sporu o władzę

Terminus ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (2 (59)) ◽  
pp. 97-133
Author(s):  
Grzegorz Franczak
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Central Place ◽  
The Political ◽  
Historical Note ◽  
Political Myth ◽  
History Of ◽  
Long Life ◽  
Ivan The Terrible

Polotia recepta. A Map of the Principality of Polatsk: Texts and Pretexts of thePower Dispute This study discusses an important aspect of a political message conveyed by Stanisław Pachołowiecki’s map, published in 1580 by G.B Cavalieri’s printing house in Rome as part of The Atlas of the Principality of Polatsk – Descriptio Ducatus Polocensis. The message in question is one of the paratexts, presenting a detailed historical note on Polatsk and the Principality. The main goal of the study is to prove a double hypothesis, first that the note on Polatsk was a key argument legitimising the rule of Stephen Báthory – contested by Tsar Ivan the Terrible – not only over the small territory under dispute but over the whole Great Duchy of Lithuania and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and second, that the decision to aim the first Polish-Lithuanian military offensive in the 1577–1582 war at Polatsk was motivated by political rather than military or strategic considerations. In section I, preliminary assumptions, theses and research methods are presented. Then, in section II, the context of the propaganda campaign, as Pachołowiecki’s map ideological framework, is introduced. This is followed by a critical analysis of the historical note, based on Polish and Ruthenian-Lithuanian sources (III.1). The next section (III.2) demonstrates that Polatsk held a central place in the Muscovite political discourse. Having proclaimed himself a heir to the throne of the Great Duchy and to the crown of Poland, Ivan the Terrible seized the land of Polatsk, and the efficient Muscovite diplomacy started to assert the tsar’s alleged dynastic claim to Lithuania and Poland. In this way, the manipulated history of the “recovered Polatsk”, Polotia recepta, argued to be a historical part of Lithuania, can be seen as a reply to the Muscovite discourse of power drawing on dynastic claims to a non-existent duchy, and the key matter is the legitimisation of elective monarchy as opposed to hereditary one. Having discussed the theatrical and iconic form of the Polish triumph over Ivan the Terrible (III.3), the author highlights the long life of the political myth of the Polatsk statehood and its sign ificance for today’s Belarusian identity discourse.

scholarly journals Polish socialist advertising in 1945–1989: Status and sources of and outlooks for the research

2020 ◽  
pp. 131-148
Author(s):  
Judyta Ewa Perczak
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Trade ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
New Records ◽  
Central Committee ◽  
International Markets ◽  
The Political ◽  
Research Material ◽  
Scientific Papers ◽  
History Of ◽  
Consumption Model

The widespread conviction that commercial advertisements neither existed nor were actually needed in Poland under socialist rule is quite untrue. Admittedly, they were not identical to Western advertisements of the time or today’s advertising activities, but they fulfilled all advertising functions and were a tool regulating the market that was always poor, creating the socialist consumption model as well as educating people so as to make them implement the said model. The advertising activity in question followed capitalist models as far as possible, but it worked out its own forms, means of expression and theory included in many books and specialist magazines, too. The analysis of the advancement of research on advertising in the PRP, sources being the basis that research and its desired directions is the goal of this article. The study questions asked are: 1. What kind of source documents can studies of advertising in the PRP be based on? 2. What is the current advancement of research on the history of advertising in Poland before 1945? What is the current advancement of research on advertising in the PRP? Which areas of science could use the source documents underlying the research on advertising in the PRP? This article is based on the analysis of various groups of source documents, particularly specialist and scientific literature from the 1945–1989 period, scientific papers on socialist advertising published after 1989 and archival records. This article is an analysis of status of research on advertising dr Judyta Ewa Perczak 128 in the People’s Republic of Poland (PRP), sources used in the said research and directions that it should take. The abundance of sources is pointed out. The said sources are mainly archival ones available from the Archives of New Records in Warsaw (they include, among other things, ‘Rada Programowa Reklamy’ (Advertising Program Council), a file being a part of the ‘Ministerstwo Handlu Wewnętrznego’ (Ministry of Internal Trade) unit; the ‘Ministerstwo Handlu Zagranicznego’ (Ministry of Foreign Trade) unit including files with information about Agpol, a foreign trade business in charge of advertising on international markets; ‘Przedsiębiorstwo Usług Reklamowych „Reklama” w Warszawie, Państwowa Agencja Reklamowa „Reklama” 1971–2004’, records of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers’ Party, those of the Supreme Chamber of Control and many other); the Documentation Department of TVP S.A. and the archives of Polskie Radio S.A. Films, printed matter and advertisements themselves being invaluable research material are also referred to.

The Political Discourse of Anarchy: A Disciplinary History of International Relations.

2000 ◽  
Vol 86 (4) ◽  
pp. 1871 ◽  
Author(s):  
David S. Patterson ◽  
Brian C. Schmidt ◽  
Spencer R. Weart ◽  
Gary B. Ostrower
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
The Political ◽  
Disciplinary History ◽  
History Of

Introduction

2013 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Marcin Wodziński
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Jewish Community ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Political History ◽  
The Political ◽  
East European ◽  
Cultural Transformations ◽  
Turbulent Times ◽  
History Of

This chapter discusses the study of the Haskalah and the hasidic movement in the Kingdom of Poland, sometimes also known as “Congress Poland” because it was created by the Congress of Vienna in the nineteenth century. Hasidism was no doubt the largest and most important new movement to emerge within east European Jewry in those turbulent times. The chapter explains how Hasidism participated in abrupt social, economic, and cultural transformations in the Polish territories. It investigates the changes in social relations and perceptions that the transformations brought about or how the new social formations that arose in the Polish lands defined and redefined themselves in relation to each other. The chapter focuses on Haskalah and the traditional non-hasidic Jewish community by considering the political history of the Kingdom of Poland and its relationship with the hasidic movement.

The Politics of Russian Revisionism: Diplomacy of a Worldview, 2011–14

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 453-477
Author(s):  
Iain Ferguson ◽  
Sergei Akopov
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Humanitarian Intervention ◽  
Use Of Force ◽  
Legal Norm ◽  
The Political ◽  
Humanitarian Interventions ◽  
Peace And Conflict ◽  
History Of

Abstract Russia’s use of force in Ukraine has been described as a challenge to the rule of international law and an event of unilateral intervention. This paper provides a reinterpretation of this standard history of Russian revisionism. Our new history places this practice in a global governance context through an analysis of the politics concerning the international legal norm of ‘non-intervention’ and its legitimate/illegitimate exceptions for collective intervention. This analysis discloses a practice of Russian diplomacy that emerges out of resistance to humanitarian interventions advocated for by Western states. This practice justifies its own state-bound humanitarian intervention as the legitimate exception to the foundation of international order, which Russian diplomacy had previously sought to restore. We argue the political discourse of the worldview of ‘state civilization’ explains these events of Russian revisionism. We conclude with an analysis of the international paradoxes of peace and conflict contingent on this Russian worldview.

The pressure of coherence and the diachronic reconfigurations of metaphorical discourse

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takashi Shogimen
Keyword(s):  
Political Discourse ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
Medical Knowledge ◽  
The Body ◽  
Political Community ◽  
The Political ◽  
John Of Salisbury ◽  
Medical Context ◽  
Marsilius Of Padua ◽  
History Of

The metaphor of the body politic is diverse in the history of European political discourse yet it remains unclear why such diachronic variations occurred. Drawing on Zoltán Kövecses’s idea of “the pressure of coherence,” the present paper argues that diachronic reconfigurations of metaphorical discourses occur due to differential contextual experiences; more specifically, metaphorical discourses on the body politic, which consist of mapping between the domain of the POLITICAL COMMUNITY and that of natural BODY, are reconfigured diachronically in accordance with not only the ideological but also the medical context. In order to demonstrate this, the paper examines the texts of three key medieval political thinkers — John of Salisbury, Marsilius of Padua and Nicholas of Cusa — and the medical knowledge that was influential in their respective era. Thus this paper constitutes a contribution to the historical cognitive linguistic study of metaphorical discourse.

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