Ideologie, Redewendungen, Sprachformen und Lebensmodus in den kommunistischen Jahren Rumäniens
Ideology, Language and Daily Life in Communist Romania

Summary/Abstract: Throughout the ages, the concept of ideology has been redefined to include those values that the ruling class thought essential. In this paper, we take a more comprehensive view on the term and analyse the relationship between communist ideology and language as a semiotic structure, together with the changes the communist ideology brought to the Romanian language. Expanding the topic, we approach the way in which this ideology reflected into the school curricula, especially where foreign languages are concerned. Furthermore, as one of the constant features of Romanian communist culture is the colour red, the semantics of red is discussed in relation with the false myth of the blood shed by the working classes who sacrificed for the wellbeing of all. Our aim is to place our analysis in the area where the individual and collective past is brought to the present in order to save it from oblivion and also to reveal the extent to which the working class ideology was a toxic one.

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