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Language dimension of totalitarian regimes

Publication at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Faculty of Social Sciences |
2014

Abstract

The text deals with the linguistic dimension of totalitarian regimes. It identifies language as a tool used by totalitarian systems to maintain control and illustrates how totalitarian regimes change the role of language from an information-transmission tool to a power tool.

It also demonstrates how this change in language's communication role can be understood as a communication failure, and why therefore from a cyber perspective a disintegration of political systems can be understood as a communication failure.