Diverging Language Uses: Political Discourse in Hungary after World War I
Diverging Language Uses: Political Discourse in Hungary after World War I
Author(s): József TakátsSubject(s): Politics and communication, Politics and society, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939)
Published by: Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Bölcsészettudományi Kutatóközpont Történettudományi Intézet
Keywords: Political discourses; brutalization; extreme political emotions; apocalyptic tone; National Darwinism
Summary/Abstract: Following some introductory notes on methodology, this study analyzes the process of the intensifying militarization, polarization, brutalization, sacralization, saturation with extreme appeals to emotions, and apocalyptic tone of Hungarian political texts after 1918. It also examines the ways in which the National Darwinist political vocabulary, which evolved originally in the last third of the nineteenth century, survived after the World War, and how it created the double languages of nationalist discourse: the historicizing one and the racist one.
Journal: The Hungarian historical review : new series of Acta Historica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
- Issue Year: 11/2022
- Issue No: 4
- Page Range: 764-788
- Page Count: 25
- Language: English
