The Policy of the Accomplished Fact in the 19th Century Romanian Discourse (original) (raw)

The Policy of the Accomplished Fact in the 19th Century Romanian Discourse 1. Introduction 1. 1 The aim of the research This paper is an attempt to describe the accomplished fact (AF) as a political strategy by taking into consideration two concrete situations at the beginning of Romanian modern history. My assumption is that the accomplished fact is a notion in whose structure political manoeuvering in general and political acts, protocols and extra-legal machinations in particular interact with communication. The discursive practices and communicative forms represent an extremely varied constellation organised around the AF. The criteria for their classification are their official vs. confidential, contemporary vs. non-contemporary character, the discursive versus the comunicative character -in rumours and secret conveyances, for example -, and, of course, their functions. The series of discourse types involved in the staging of the AF as a macro-event includes the following: parliamentary debates, diplomatic letters, telegrams, items of news and press comments, historians' accounts, political propaganda texts, private letters, memoirs, official statements, private meetings, political acts, such as decrees, proclamations, notifications a.s.o, acclamations, congratulations and last but not least, words of advice, rumours and secret communication acts.