Aspects Of Language Usage In The Students’ Protests, Bulgaria 2013
Milena Berbenkova, №769-M
Why the students’ protests of 2013 Bulgaria?
• A focal point in the development of Bulgarian Civil Society
• Part of the global protest movements• Continuing a tradition of students’
protests• New Protest aesthetic• Mixing discourses
Protest language
• Establishing means of legitimization through relating to previous revolutionary events
• Calling for national consolidation• Debating power relations• New means of legitimization: modern
language
Relating to previous revolutionary events
Relating to one’s own revolutionary history
Relating to previous students protests
In relation with other protests
Modern Language
#Оставка #Извинисебе
Neologisms
Self-referral
• The children of transition• The youth• The students• The social corrective• The boys and girls
Sources• Pictures from the FB page of
Ranobudnite Studenti• Interviews with the protest leaders• Barthes, R The Imagination of The
Sign• Ефтимова, А. Езикът на протеста
(вербални и невербални технологии)
• Кръстева А, “Граждански протести, е-демокрация, нови мобилизации”
Thank you
Milena Berbenkova, № 769 - М