Transformation discourse in polytolinguistics: comparative analysis of the ideologems at the end of the 20th century

• Main Authors: Kataev Dmitriy Valentinovich, Kataeva Stalina Gavrilovna
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Institute of Modern Humanitarian Researches 2018-04-01
• Series: Studia Humanitatis
• Subjects: political linguistics; transformational discourse; ideologems; political language; stigmatization
• Online Access: http://st-hum.ru/en/node/636/

The article reveals the heuristic and applied capabilities of polytolinguistics, a relatively young branch of scientific knowledge. A relevant tracing paper is a comparative analysis of language cultures in the era of Perestroika in Russia and German reunification. The generality of the trends of linguistic changes is explained by the former membership of the USSR and the GDR to one ideological system. The differences are due to the different history and prehistory of socialism in these countries, which have imposed a national-specific imprint on subsequent processes of democratic transformation.