Tom Dickins Tom Dickins

Biographic Data

ID10998480
NAMETom Dickins Tom Dickins
GIVEN NAMESTom Dickins
FAMILY NAMETom Dickins
SIGNATUREDICKINS T D T
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS4
TOTAL CITATIONS2
WORKS AS AUTHOR4
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
H-INDEX1

  • Folk-Spectrum Music as an Expression of Alterity in ‘Normalization’ Czechoslovakia (1969–89)

    Thomas E Dickins, Tom Dickins Tom DickinsARTICLEThe Slavonic and East European…2017References: 1

    This article seeks to evaluate the challenge posed by folk, country and tramping music to the Communist authorities in ‘normalization’ Czechoslovakia (1969–89) and the measures taken to limit their impact. It outlines the traditions and the historical context of folk-spectrum music, considers the reception of songs by the authorities and the constraints that were imposed upon their performers, analyses the defining characteristics of the composit…

  • The Impact Factor of the Language of Czechoslovak Normalization

    Thomas E Dickins, Tom Dickins et al.ARTICLEThe Slavonic and East European…2015References: 1

    This article employs a corpus-driven discourse approach to analyse the language of the canonical official interpretation of the Prague Spring, Poučení z krizového vývoje ve straně a společnosti po XIII. sjezdu KSČ. The study argues that Communist rhetoric reduced language to a ‘coded’ ideological ritual, which largely achieved its two intended perlocutionary effects: to re-educate its readers and to satisfy the political demands of the Soviet lea…

  • Historical ‘Signposts’ and Other Temporal Indicators in the Czech Lexicon

    Thomas E Dickins, Tom Dickins Tom DickinsARTICLEThe Slavonic and East European…2012References: 2

    This article posits that the Czechs employ a great many historical markers, previously applied to other events of national importance, which help to shape collective memory and right the ‘wrongs’ of the past. It is argued that these temporal indicators share a number of clearly defined characteristics, and that their use is too systematic and calculated to be merely a function of the constraints of the lexicon. The first part of the study conside…

  • The Czech-Speaking Lands, Their Peoples and Contact Communities

    Thomas E Dickins, Tom Dickins Tom DickinsARTICLEThe Slavonic and East European…2011Cited by: 2References: 1

    This article provides a detailed overview of the official and unofficial names applied to the Czech-speaking lands, their peoples and their language(s), and of the terms used by Czechs for contact communities and their territories. Particular attention is paid to the ethnolinguistic and semantic implications of the descriptors employed, and to the debates which they have stimulated. It is argued that the Czech lexicon continues to reflect traditi…