Language of the Revolution

Eugen Wohl is  Lecturer within the Department of Foreign Languages for Specific Purposes, Faculty of Letters, Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj, Romania and a theatre critic (IATC member). Elena Păcurar  is  Lecturer within the Department of Foreign Languages for Specific Purposes, Faculty of Letters, Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj, Romania, where she teaches practical courses of English for Specific Purposes.

• Introduction.- Narratives of discord: misinformation, dissimulation, truth.- Voices from Below. Propaganda and Petitioning Power in Late Socialist Romania (Mioara Anton).- The Great Discursive Divide in Communist Romania (Veronica Manole).- “Words that Must Not Be Named”: Narratives of Language, Power, and Identity in Communist Romania (Réka Lugossy).- Compromise or Survival. Adapting the Religious Discourse and the Topics Covered in Publications of the Romanian Orthodox Church during the Communist Regime (Călin Emilian Cira).- The Founding Texts of a Revolution. Romania 1989 (Kazimierz Jurczak).- Words at war: expressive forms of resistance, dissidence and protest.- The Language of Inner Freedom for Dissent: Müller and Liiceanu before and after the Revolution (Jonathan Lahey Dronsfield).- The Rhetoric of Albanian Insurgency: Communism and Anti- Communism in Kosovo (Henrique Schneider).- The Change of Worlds and Words. The Language of Protest during and after the Romanian Revolution in 1989 (Dina Vîlcu).- Written, spoken, performed: archiving the memory of (post-)communism.- Humility and Hatred, Forgiveness and Hope. A Linguistic Approach on the Subjective Literary Experiences in the Romanian Communist Society (Maria-Zoica Eugenia Balaban).- Retrieving Memory via Desk-Drawer Literature: from Reality Escapism in Stories about Cadmav to Contemporary Reflective Writing in With My Woman’s Mind (Ioana Mudure-Iacob).- Surviving the Change, Adjusting the Language. Romanian Writers in the Cultural Media, December 1989-1990 (Magdalena Răduță, Oana Fotache).- The December 1989 Revolution in Post-Communist Romanian Drama (Anca Hațiegan).- Staging Communism in Romania: Language, Propaganda, Memory in Caryl Churchill’s Mad Forest and Matei Vișniec’s How to Explain the History of Communism to Mental Patients (Alina Cojocaru).-  The Language of the Velvet Revolution versus the Anti-Language of Post- Communist Crime. A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Contemporary Czech Crime Historical Television Series (Luboš Ptáček).- Surprising Silence? Possible Reasons for Scarcity of Representation of the Velvet Revolution in Czech Film Adaptations in the 1990s (Radoslav Horák).- Comparing the Portrayal of the Fall of the Berlin Wall in Two Spanish Newspapers: A Multimodal Analysis (Samira Allani, Silvia Molina-Plaza).- Borghesia and Laibach against the Socialist Regime of Yugoslavia: Insights from a Socio-Linguistic Analysis (Mitja Stefancic).- Conclusions.