Хатынь и ее сестры: от метафоры к репрезентации коллективной памяти о Великой Отечественной Войне
Khatyn and its sisters: from metaphor to representation of collective memory of the Great Patriotic War

Author(s): Metlushko Irina
Subject(s): History, Language and Literature Studies, Cultural history, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Descriptive linguistics
Published by: Biblioteca Ştiinţifică a Universităţii de Stat Alecu Russo
Keywords: memory discourse; media memory discourse; Memory Studies; Khatyn tragedy; metaphor
Summary/Abstract: The article introduces the concepts of memory discourse and media memory discourse. Using the example of the modern media memory discourse of the Republic of Belarus (RB), the influence of the state's memory policy on the collective memory of the World War II (WWII) is examined. The impact of the adopted law "On the Genocide of the Belarusian People" on the patterns of representing new data on war crimes in the media memory discourse of Belarus is identified. For instance, the widespread awareness of the Khatyn tragedy among a significant number of recipients leads to the use of metaphors with the toponym Khatyn (sister of Khatyn, new sister of Khatyn, native sister of Khatyn, children's Khatyn, Polesie sister of Khatyn) to integrate new facts of genocide into the collective memory of the GPW.

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