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The Question of the Discourse in the Interviews with the Communist Officials

Publication at Faculty of Humanities |
2018

Abstract

The topic of the paper is the clash of the hegemony anticommunist and minority communist discourse in the interviews with the communist officials. It reflects application if the critical discourse analysis in the process of preparation for the expert interview.

Historian should take account of the historical and social-cultural conditions of the language, which are based on transfer, sharing and repeating of the information, arguments, concepts and metaphors. Interviewers and interviewees also use the group shared values in the expert interviews.

The paper makes an attempt to answer question, how this group shared language can affect interviewee's understanding of the questions of interviewer in the expert interview. Structure of the text consists in case study.

The analysis focuses on comparison of interviews with Miloš Jakeš. Analyzed interview was realized by historian Miroslav Vaněk.

One of the analyzed interview was made as expert interview for the oral history project. This interviewed with Jakeš was realized by historian Miroslav Vaněk.

The compered interview was made by staffer of journal Haló noviny Jan Jelínek. This journal is close to the contemporary communist party.

Interpretation of the interviews puts emphasis on effect of the changes, which were caused by velvet revolution, on the understanding of the concepts and events.