Prokrust i kolektyw. Deixis a działanie performatywne w tekście „kultury stalinowskiej”
Procrustes and collective. Deixis and performative action in texts of “Stalinist culture”

Author(s): Bartłomiej Starnawski
Subject(s): Philosophy, Language and Literature Studies, Communication studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: socialist realism; discourse criticism; rhetoric; communication
Summary/Abstract: The purpose of my paper, signaled in the title, is a description of the phenomenon of deixis in the perspective of critical discourse analysis, in particular: a) the function it serves in the socrealistic propaganda transmission; b) its text-creating role respect to ideological, rhetorical (totalitarian) actio and presenting its role for the normative rules of presentation, which are imputed in it or imposed by it. In other words, deixis should be understood broadly, not only as a kind of transitive morphological units of expression (Lyons), but as a kind of “skeleton” of Stalinist / socrealistic semiosis. Deixis is a kind of rhetorical grip, its specificity includes the performative act of founding, among others, structure of the discursive “We” (pluralis sovieticae, collective, communist community), which allows the application of socialist habitus in the anthropological sphere, using variously targeted forms of the message (whereas deontic modality, accompanying it, and position of discursive Agens, or administratory rules of communication at that homophonic system are hidden). I base my rhetorical analysis on various texts of Stalin era, texts that form a hierarchical system of cross-dependence (allegations like: Stalin-Bie¬rut- “committed journalism”), leading from ideological arche-text in which invariants are formulated, through the form of translation of that set ideologems of a political and axiological nature to the aesthetic code, to further mimetic reproduction of that message in subsequent texts.

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