The 2014 Sochi Olympics and 'Sovereign Power': A Political Linguistic Perspective

In: Problems of post-communism, Band 61, Heft 1, S. 41-51

Abstract

From a political linguistics perspective, the preparations for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games offer insight into the Kremlin-orchestrated Olympic discourse, especially the idea of sovereignty -- constitutive for Putin's rule -- and reveal challenges to this discourse from outside and inside the ruling group. Adapted from the source document.