CLICHÉS AND STEREOTYPES IN THE OFFICIAL DISCOURSE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR 1990. A FEW SIMILARITIES WITH THE COMMUNIST POLITICAL DISCOURSE
CLICHÉS AND STEREOTYPES IN THE OFFICIAL DISCOURSE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR 1990. A FEW SIMILARITIES WITH THE COMMUNIST POLITICAL DISCOURSE

Summary/Abstract: This study focuses on some aspects concerning the semantics of the official discourse in the first half of 1990. We also tried to identify clichés and stereotypes in Ion Iliescu’s and National Salvation Front’s (N. S. F.) representatives’ speeches. These realities regarding the political discourse are somehow similar to those of the late 1940’s and the beginning of the 1950’s. Maybe surprisingly, but we also found out a few similarities with the discourse of the General secretary of Romanian Communist Party, Nicolae Ceauşescu. Although he condemned the cult of personality dedicated to the former dictator, Ion Iliescu himself enjoyed a sort of incipient form of personality cult during the electoral campaign of 1990.

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