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Religious Vocabulary in the Discourse of Romanian Political Elites in Transylvania, 1918.

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    • Subject Terms:
      Romania; Transylvania (Romania)
    • Abstract:
      The quantitative analysis of the corpus of Romanian official political discourse spontaneously constituted in 19181 offers interesting and somewhat surprising results. The strangeness, whether real or apparent, lies in the proportion of terms and sentences with a religious meaning. The amount of these is impressive, occupying a second place closely behind the concept of nation. One may say that the speakers have not taken this path because they were braided by a deliberate intellectual construct, but they were rather inspired by the spirituality of the age and the place. They employed pre-existing structures of collective mentality, overlapping national action - history experienced - with Christian history, still very. much alive in the consciousness of more or less educated Romanians. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]