Language and power in genocidal regimes : an analysis of the rhetorical function of language in Pol Pot's Cambodia, Rwanda and Hitler's Germany / by Christina M. Morus.

Publication | Digitized | Library Call Number: P301.5.P67 M67 2000

Overview

Summary: This study endeavors to gain insight into the rhetorical function of language in genocidal regimes through the examination of congruencies, among Pol Pot's Cambodia, Hitler's Germany and the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. Hitler's Germany is used as a model to expand upon the relationship between language and ultimate power, and as a basis for comparison. This paper considers specific ways language is tied to power in each of these regimes, through the examination of rhetorical artifacts from each. Using Foucault's framework of language and power, this analysis asserts Bosmajian's perspective on the Language of Anti-Semitism, and examines the way in which the construction of language influenced Hitler's Germany vs. Pol Pot's Cambodia and the recent genocide in Rwanda.
Format: Book
Author/Creator: Morus, Christina M.
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2000
Locale: Cambodia
Rwanda
Germany
Notes: Thesis (M.A.)--Eastern Michigan University, 2000.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 62-65).

Photocopy. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Dissertation Services, 2001. 24 cm.

Dissertations and Theses

Subjects: Rhetoric. Racism in language. Race in literature. Cambodia--Politics and government--1975-1979. Rwanda--History--20th century. Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945.

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