Table of contents
Prefaceviii
1. Facing the past: The commemoration of the Warsaw Uprising on the occasion of its Fiftieth anniversary1
2. A discourse analytic approach to the commemorative speeches about the Warsaw Uprising19
3. The Messianic Warsaw: Mythological framings of political discourse in the address by Lech Wałęsa41
4. The search for acceptable perspectives: German President Roman Herzog commemorates the Warsaw Uprising57
5. A politician’s sociology: US Vice President Gore’s categorisation of the participants in the Warsaw Uprising95
6. Framing the past: An analysis of John Major’s address116
7. From commemoration to self-celebration: Explorations in the interplay of discourse frames and political perspectives in the address by René Monory141
8. How the Russians handled a problem: The Warsaw Uprising in Sergey Filatov’s address173
9. Merging frames: A frame analysis of the South African, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand addresses193
10. Pope John Paul II as a Polish Patriot: The Pope’s letter in commemoration of the Warsaw Uprising212
11. The politics of public memory: The commemoration of the Second World War in a historical and comparative perspective223
Index
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