„Човек живее за едното име“. Комунистическата държавна сигурност и насилствената асимилация на мюсюлманите в България /1945 – 1990/: език и идеологии
„Man Lives Only for the Honour of his/her Name“. Communist State Security and the Forced Assimilation of Muslims in Bulgaria (1945 – 1990): Language and Ideologies

Summary/Abstract: Using the method of Critical discourse analysis the author analyses the language and ideologies of published archive documents of communist state Security in Bulgaria concerning the violent assimilation of Bulgarian Muslims (1945 –1990). Some unpublished documents from other archives are also used. The social profiles of the officers, agents and especially the victims of State Security are outlined. The author analyses the main discourses making possible the crimes against Bulgarian Muslims: dehumanisation of the Enemy by using names of animals and highly stigmatising names, medicalisation of the antireligious discourse and political resistance, logocentric discourse based on the conviction that by language engineering the thinking and identity could be controlled, the nationalistic discourse and the deculturalisation of Muslims, red racism discourse, mystification and euphemism of power. The author has outlined the alternative discourses as sources of social resistance and change.

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