Pojęcie wolności w optyce dychotomii swoi–obcy w tekstach sowieckiego ideologicznego subdyskursu o kulturze lat 1953–1957

Abstract

The term of freedom belongs to crucial social, ethical and moral issues in the Russian languaculture. Its dichotomous structure is reflected in two basic embodiments: воля and свобода. An issue crucial for understanding its functioning in conditions of totalitarianism is taking into account the actual perception of freedom by senders, and an analysis of the rhetorical use of this concept in propaganda and documentary texts. On a basis of the analysed material it can be said that the dichotomy of свобода — воля, traditional for the Russian languaculture, underwent significant reinterpretation under the analysed discourse, first by elimination of its second components as implying a lack of restrictions, while having a positive meaning, and thus being potentially harmful from the system propaganda point of view, and then by updating the three categories corresponding to three basic groups mentioned in the discourse. US (FRIENDS ) is the first of these categories, to which настоящая свобода corresponds, THEM (STRAN GERS , an external enemy мнимая свобода) form the second of these categories, while the third one describes THEM (STRAN GERS , an internal enemy, произвол).