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Scapegoating and Forms of Ambiguous Weaponized Language: the Post-communist Discourse involving Minoritized Categories

Scapegoating and Forms of Ambiguous Weaponized Language: the Post-communist Discourse involving Minoritized Categories

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[PA] Semiotics of Guilt. Reconstructing Collective Shame and False Confessions in Digital Media and Beyond (Cristina Greco)
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Raluca Varlan-Bondor
''Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University
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Scapegoating is at the core of the totalitarian regimes discourse, having as a result the dissolution of the civic spirit, a phenomenon that has been repurposed in the post-communist rhetoric concerning minorities in Eastern European countries. The attribution of guilt is a mechanism whose contagion potential has dramatically increased owing to social media. The presentation is an analysis of participatory digital forms of scapegoating of minoritized categories, as well as of the mechanisms that lead to the creation and reinterpretation of the Other. The context is the current post-communist Eastern Europe space, with a corpus of digital interactions that correspond to what Raquel Recuero calls the platformization of violence. The weaponization of language involves layers of implicit meanings that carry perduring semantic references to behavioral constructs of the communist propaganda. This linguistic dynamics also dwells at a large extent on the rapid socialization of conflict specific to the digital environment. It has as a result forms of self-censorship and the articulation of crippled discourse habits in the public sphere. There is undoubtedly a complex relationship between ambiguity and language aggression, that has already been studied in participatory contexts. Applied to this particular situation, it reveals patterns of ambiguity corresponding to situations of exclusion and marginalization.

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3.120 room, WLS (Dobra 55 street)

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