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The Notion of “Human Rights” in the Dissidents Discourse in the Period from 1968 to 1983 in the USSR (Based on the Material of “Chronicle of Current Events”)

Student: Aleksandrova Nadezhda

Supervisor: Natalya E. Gronskaya

Faculty: Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod)

Educational Programme: Political Linguistics (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2016

The paper considers on the notion “human rights” in the dissident discourse in the USSR. The key features of meaning and using of it are analysed according to linguistic semantics and conceptual history. The text corpus consistes of 64 issues of the samizdat bulletin “Chronicle of Current Events” (1968-1982). The data is investigated using the methodology of Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies (CADS).

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