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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 inAfter Newspeak p. 1
Main Author Gorham, Michael S
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Cornell University Press 01.04.2014
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Anthropology
Applied sciences
Behavioral sciences
Communication systems
Communications
Communications technology
Comparative politics
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Discourse
Ethnography
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Group identity
Internet
Language
Lexicology
Linguistics
National identity
Political communication
Political science
Political sociology
Political speeches
Psychology
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Russian culture
Russian literature
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Russian studies
Social & cultural anthropology
Social psychology
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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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