Spoken silence - bridging breaks. The discursive construction of historical continuities and turning points in Austrian commemorative speeches by rhetorical tropes
TitelSpoken silence - bridging breaks. The discursive construction of historical continuities and turning points in Austrian commemorative speeches by rhetorical tropes
Forfatter
Call number909.82/0004
Objektnummer10575k
UdgivelsesstedVienna, Austria
UdgiverPassagen
Udgivelsesår
2009
Paginering14p.
MaterialeArticle
SeriePassagen Gesellschaft.
NoterInternational conference proceedings at the Kreisky-Forum, Vienna, in June 2008.
Article from the publication 'Justice and memory : confronting traumatic pasts : an international comparison' pp213-240
Article from the publication 'Justice and memory : confronting traumatic pasts : an international comparison' pp213-240
Beskrivelse
In the first decades after 1945, political orators commemorating the proclamation of the Austrian Republic in November 1918 scarcely refer to the National Socialist crimes and even less to Austro-fascist cruelties. If they mention National Socialism, they represent it as a a sort of natural catastrophe suffered by the Austrians