Spoken silence - bridging breaks. The discursive construction of historical continuities and turning points in Austrian commemorative speeches by rhetorical tropes
TitreSpoken silence - bridging breaks. The discursive construction of historical continuities and turning points in Austrian commemorative speeches by rhetorical tropes
Auteur
Call number909.82/0004
N° d'objet10575k
Lieu de publicationVienna, Austria
EditeurPassagen
Année de publication
2009
Pagination14p.
MatérielArticle
SériePassagen Gesellschaft.
NotesInternational 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
Description
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