Diverging Language Uses: Political Discourse in Hungary after World War I
József Takáts
University of Pécs
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Hungarian Historical Review Volume 11 Issue 4 (2022):764–788 DOI 10.38145/2022.4.764
Following some introductory notes on methodology, this study analyzes the process of the intensifying militarization, polarization, brutalization, sacralization, saturation with extreme appeals to emotions, and apocalyptic tone of Hungarian political texts after 1918. It also examines the ways in which the National Darwinist political vocabulary, which evolved originally in the last third of the nineteenth century, survived after the World War, and how it created the double languages of nationalist discourse: the historicizing one and the racist one.
Keywords: Political discourses, brutalization, extreme political emotions, apocalyptic tone, National Darwinism