Discourse of Communism and Socialist linguistic personality:  Rhetorical perspective

Aleksandra A. Vorozhbitova; Serhiy I. Potapenko; Larisa G. Berezovskaya; Elena I. Lebedeva; Nadezhda V. Kushko

Aleksandra A. Vorozhbitova Department of Roman-German and Russian Philology, Sochi State University, Sochi, Russia
Serhiy I. Potapenko Department of English Philology, Translation and Language Philosophy named after Professor O.M. Morokhovsky, Kyiv National Linguistic University, Kyiv, Ukraine
Larisa G. Berezovskaya Department of Roman-Germanic and Russian Philology, Sochi State University, Sochi, Russia
Elena I. Lebedeva Department of Russian and foreign literature, Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University), Moscow, Russia
Nadezhda V. Kushko Department of Roman-Germanic and Russian Philology, Sochi State University, Sochi, Russia

Keywords: Discourse of Communism, Socialist linguistic personality, Sochi Linguistic & Rhetorical School.

Abstract

Within the conception of the Sochi Linguistic & Rhetorical School the paper argues for the idea of discourse of Communism as a cover term for the «officialese» in the Soviet Union and former Socialist countries singling out four periods of its development: origin, formation, official existence, dismantling. The article pays special attention to the heterogeneity of the longest period of the discourse's official existence, which consists of the alternating stages: rise in the revolutionary and post-revolutionary years, during war and past-war time with the expansion of the discourse of Communism to other countries; and fall with the massive reprisals of 1930s and the “stagnation” epoch. During the period of its official existence three of its facets – official, public and real – reflect contradictions between the Communist ideas imposed by the authorities and the state of the Socialist linguistic personality confronting the meanness of daily life. The paper reveals those contrasts drawing on the diaries of Olga Berggolts and Alexander Dovzhenko as well as the destinies of Mikhail Prishvin, Alexey Tolstoy and Alexander Fadeyev.

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Author Biographies

Aleksandra A. Vorozhbitova, Department of Roman-German and Russian Philology, Sochi State University, Sochi, Russia

Doctor of Pedagogy, Doctor of Philology, Professor, Honorary Worker of Higher Professional Education of the Russian Federation, Professor of the Department of Roman-German and Russian Philology, Sochi State University, Sochi, Russia

Serhiy I. Potapenko, Department of English Philology, Translation and Language Philosophy named after Professor O.M. Morokhovsky, Kyiv National Linguistic University, Kyiv, Ukraine

Doctor of Philology, Professor, Professor of the Department of English Philology, Translation and Language Philosophy named after Professor O.M. Morokhovsky, Kyiv National Linguistic University, Kyiv, Ukraine

Larisa G. Berezovskaya, Department of Roman-Germanic and Russian Philology, Sochi State University, Sochi, Russia

Ph. D. of Philology, Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Roman-Germanic and Russian Philology, Sochi State University, Sochi, Russia

Elena I. Lebedeva, Department of Russian and foreign literature, Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University), Moscow, Russia

Ph. D. of Philology, Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Russian and foreign literature, Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University), Moscow, Russia

Nadezhda V. Kushko, Department of Roman-Germanic and Russian Philology, Sochi State University, Sochi, Russia

Ph. D. of Philology, Associate Professor of the Department of Roman-Germanic and Russian Philology, Sochi State University, Sochi, Russia

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