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

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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