“Internacional’naja literatura”, 2, 1934 - [S018]
Communicative Intention: Emphasising the contrast between two worlds
Utterance Aim: Creation of a flattering image of US and an offensive one of the OTHERS
Concrete Linguistic Means/Tool: Antithetical constructions
Journal Title: "Internacional'naja literatura"
Journal Number: 2
Contexts & Examples: В заключение Вайян-Кутюрье обратился к студентам, писателям и художникам, присутствовавшим на митинге с призывом создать единый революционный фронт борьбы не только для защиты, но и для наступления.
Edited by Svetlana Slavkova
The post-revolutionary periodical press is characterised by a vivid and explicit manifestation of the ideological conflict between ‘our people’ and ‘the outsiders’. The following is a 1923 quote from the newspaper ‘Pravda’: “A true communist article – not only in newspapers but also in magazines, not only propagandistic but also scientific – is characterised by exceptional clarity and stylistic precision. Our enemies say it is harsh and crude, elementary and vulgar. It is truthful, sincere, bold, frank, ruthless…” (I. Vardin, ‘Pravda’, No. 56, 1923 – cited in Vinokur 1923: 110). In the texts of the ‘International Chronicle’ section we find rhetorical figures such as antithetical structures that effectively emphasise the opposition of two worlds (the reactionary and the revolutionary, the bourgeois and the proletarian), underlining their irreconcilability. As can be seen from the cited example, actions such as ‘nastuplenie’ [attack] and ‘zashchita’ [defence] are placed side by side in the image of the fight.