TY - BOOK ID - 79125635 TI - The post-communist condition : public and private discourses of transformation. AU - Galasińska, Aleksandra AU - Galasiński, Dariusz PY - 2010 SN - 9789027206282 9789027288172 9027288178 9027206287 128104251X 9781281042514 9786613773500 6613773506 PB - Amsterdam Benjamins DB - UniCat KW - Pragmatics KW - Discourse analysis KW - #SBIB:309H270 KW - #SBIB:309H511 KW - Discourse grammar KW - Text grammar KW - Semantics KW - Semiotics KW - Political aspects KW - Politieke communicatie: algemene werken KW - Verbale communicatie: algemene pragmatiek, stilistiek en teksttheorie, discoursanalyse UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:79125635 AB - This volume offers interdisciplinary perspectives on discourses in one national context of post-communist transformation. Proposing a macro-micro approach to discourse analysis and transformation, it examines a spectrum of topics including Polish history, with its 'interpreters'; changes in political bodies and the media, policies of the Catholic Church and the Institute of National Remembrance; xenophobia and anti-Semitism, with the emergence of unemployment and homelessness; experiences of new gender relations and migrations. In effect, drawing upon unique sets of data, the book shows how post-communist transformation can be understood through analyses of the changing public and private discourses. It shows Polish post-communism as a fragile and uneasy transformation, with people and institutions struggling to make sense of it and of life within it. The volume will be of interest to a broad range of social scientists: discourse analysts, sociologists, modern historians and political scientists, as well as to the informed lay public. ER -