Transforming National Holidays: Identity discourse in the West and South Slavic countries, 1985-2010
Edited by Ljiljana Šarić, Karen Gammelgaard and Kjetil Rå Hauge
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 47] 2012. xiii, 314 pp.
Karen Gammelgaard
List of John Benjamins publications for which Karen Gammelgaard plays a role.
Title
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Articles
2012 Chapter 10. The Czech and Czechoslovak 28 October: Stability and change in four presidential addresses 1988–2008 Transforming National Holidays: Identity discourse in the West and South Slavic countries, 1985-2010, Šarić, Ljiljana, Karen Gammelgaard and Kjetil Rå Hauge (eds.), pp. 231–250 | Article
Presidential addresses given about the most prominent Czech and Czechoslovak secular holiday, 28 October, contribute noticeably to articulating collective identity. In this chapter, four 28 October addresses are analyzed: one by Czechoslovakia’s last communist president, Gustáv Husák (1988); two by… read more
2012 Discursive construction of national holidays in West and South Slavic
countries after the fall of communism: Introductory thoughts Transforming National Holidays: Identity discourse in the West and South Slavic countries, 1985-2010, Šarić, Ljiljana, Karen Gammelgaard and Kjetil Rå Hauge (eds.), pp. 5–31 | Article
2008 Coping with Stalinist panegyrics: A semantic and pragmatic analysis of a Czech text Journal of Historical Pragmatics 9:1, pp. 48–70 | Article
This paper discusses a significant text genre in totalitarian societies: panegyrics of the leader. In countries under Stalinist rule, the output of panegyric texts reached immeasurable proportions. Probably due to their uniformity, few attempts have been made to analyse the single panegyric text.… read more