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The Totalitarian Language in the former Czechoslovakia (1948-1986, the concept of the word ?work?

Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2007

Abstract

In the period of the communist regime not only totalitarian language was created, but also spontaneous language of common users emerged as a defence against the official language. This article shows and discusses some of the frequent words from both these languages, the focus is on the very popular word of the totalitarian language - work.