The Ideologization Of The Russian Language After The Revolution Of 1917
Abstract
This article deals with the ideologization of the language of Soviet newspapers after the revolution. We understand ideologization as the subjection to the system of the political, legal, moral, esthetic, religious, and philosophical ideas typical of a specific development stage of society. We analyzed the ideologization during one of the key periods of Russian history, i.e. the October Revolution of 1917 and the post-revolutionary period. This research is deemed relevant because the ideologization of the language is an ongoing process and evident today in the Russian media. As such, it must be analyzed by linguists taking into consideration its historical bases. The author focuses on the linguistic means that facilitate the ideologization of the language of Krasnaya Gazeta in 1920. Among those are new nominative units (names for new realia), imagery and expressive means, verbal cliches, officialese vocabulary, colloquialisms, pronouns we and our, slogans. The ideologization of the language was one of the methods of influencing the reader in the 1920es when language became a key tool in spreading ideological views and forming the new mentality of the Soviet people. We assume that larger historical events in terms of political changes result in the greater ideologization of the language of the media. Language ideologization in the publications of Krasnaya Gazeta helped transform the mentality of the public and shape new ideological stereotypes to ensure that people could have faith in the new world order and its social significance, addressing the needs of ordinary people.
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29 November 2021
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978-1-80296-116-4
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European Publisher
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117
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Cultural development, technological development, socio-political transformations, globalization
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Gao, L. (2021). The Ideologization Of The Russian Language After The Revolution Of 1917. In D. K. Bataev, S. A. Gapurov, A. D. Osmaev, V. K. Akaev, L. M. Idigova, M. R. Ovhadov, A. R. Salgiriev, & M. M. Betilmerzaeva (Eds.), Social and Cultural Transformations in The Context of Modern Globalism, vol 117. European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences (pp. 1785-1791). European Publisher. https://doi.org/10.15405/epsbs.2021.11.235