Introduction Ideologies, Economies, and Technologies of Language
Along withkreativ(creative [n.]), it was the curious termpolitkonkretnostʹ (“polit-concreteness”) that received the dubious award of “antiword of the year” (antislovo goda) from a panel of linguists and literary critics appointed to name both the word and antiword of the year for 2007 (Epshtein 2008...
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Published in | After Newspeak p. 1 |
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Format | Book Chapter |
Language | English |
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Cornell University Press
01.04.2014
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Summary: | Along withkreativ(creative [n.]), it was the curious termpolitkonkretnostʹ (“polit-concreteness”) that received the dubious award of “antiword of the year” (antislovo goda) from a panel of linguists and literary critics appointed to name both the word and antiword of the year for 2007 (Epshtein 2008). (The honor of “word of the year” went toglamur[glamour].) Although a close structural cousin topolitkorrektnostʹ, a derivative of the English “political correctness,” the term carries a subtly different meaning (and can be translated literally as “political concreteness”), more akin to what some believe to have been the very first manifestations |
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ISBN: | 9780801452628 0801452627 0801479266 9780801479267 |