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Introduction: the return of populists and the people: discursive approaches to populism across disciplines
No full textThis chapter introduces the themes of the volume: Populism research and Discourse studies. It gives a detailed and state of the art overview of concepts in populism research as well as approaches to discourse and how they are linked to each other. It shows the tensions and connections amongst populism theories and assumptions of discourse research. Discourse studies is introduced as an interdisciplinary project bringing together research methodologies and theories that emerged from the linguistic turn of the social sciences and the discursive turn of linguistics. In this discussion, the case studies represented in this volume are situated on the disciplinary, methodological and political map that becomes apparent
Populistische Elemente in den Wahlprogrammen von AfD und UKIP
No full textSeit dem Erstarken neuer rechter Parteien in Europa und der Wahl Donald Trumps zum 45. Präsidenten der Vereinigten Staaten dominiert Populismus als politischer Kampfbegriff den politischen Diskurs und rückt ebenfalls als analytische Kategorie der politik- und sprachwissenschaftlichen Diskursanalyse wieder in den Vordergrund. Doch was macht den populistischen Diskurs aus, wie wird er sprachlich konstituiert? Um dieser Frage nachzugehen, werde ich im Folgenden zuerst politikwissenschaftliche Ansätze zur Beschreibung von Populismus kurz skizzieren und auf dieser Basis Elemente des populistischen Diskurses herausarbeiten. Daraufhin werde ich die sprachliche Konstruktion dieser Elemente in den Wahlprogrammen der AfD und von UKIP vergleichend analysieren. Ein vergleichender, korpusgestützter Zugang zur politolinguistischen Diskursanalyse soll eine Diskussion des Zusammenhangs zwischen Text und Kontext erlauben und demonstrieren, wie „populistische“ Diskurse von der jeweiligen politischen Kultur der Diskursgemeinschaft abhängen. Als empirische Basis dienen zwei Korpora, die jeweils die aktuellen Wahlprogramme der im Deutschen Bundestag bzw. Britischen Unterhaus vertretenen Parteien als Referenzkorpus und die Wahlprogramme der AfD und von UKIP als analytisches Korpus enthalten
Antoon De Rycker & Zuraidah Mohd Don (eds.), Discourse and crisis: Critical perspectives. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2013. Pp. vii, 489. Hb. $149.
No full textAntoon De Rycker & Zuraidah Mohd Don (eds.), Discourse and crisis: Critical perspectives. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2013. Pp. vii, 489. Hb. $149
Review of Perrez, Reuchamps & Thibodeau (2019): Variation in political metaphor
No full textReview: Perrez, Julien; Reuchamps, Min; Thibodeau, Paul H. (2019): Variation in political metaphor. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins (DAPSAC: 85
Review of Cap, Piotr & Urszula Okulska, eds. 2013. Analyzing genres in political communication: Theory and practice
No full textPiotr Cap & Urszula Okulska (eds). (2013)Analyzing genres in political communication: Theory and practic
‘Today I offer you, and we offer the country a new vision’: The strategic use of first person pronouns in party conference speeches of the Third Way
Full text linkThis article aims to fill a gap in the existing research by analysing the construction of leadership and group identity in a corpus of 13 party conference speeches by the party leaders of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the British Labour Party between 1997 and 2003. The comparative approach chosen will demonstrate the context sensitivity and strategic use of the pronominal self-references. The article will demonstrate how changes of pronominal self-reference in party conference speeches can be understood as strategic changes of footing to foreground either the voice of the party leader or the voice of the party. It will conclude with the results of an analysis of the combination of pronominal self-references and verb forms construing competence and responsiveness, as suggested by Fetzer and Bull, and demonstrates that these verb forms are used differently in combination with the various forms of self-reference, a fact neglected in their analysis
The wickedness of net-zero policy: scales in policy discourse
No full textBroad goals on climate change are largely set at international and national levels, whereas the tangible action required to tackle the challenge of climate change is essentially implemented at a local and individual level. The paper investigates how international policy discourses on climate change are adapted in local government, analysing a data set from a council debate in Germany about the EU programme ‘100 Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities by 2030’ and the textual and discursive networks created by that debate. The analysis is based on recordings from the council and committee debates, the different versions of motions, as well as the broader textual networks produced by the debate. Although the debate did not result in this city taking part in the programme, it initiated a wider debate within the urban society and increased the influence of local policy expertise. The article contributes to the agenda of critical policy discourse analysis by outlining the role of epistemological and ontological scales in the connection of global and local policy discourses, which contribute to the complexity and wickedness of climate change as a policy problem.</p
Political myth as a legitimation strategy: the case of the golden age myth in the discourses of the Third Way
Full text linkGolden age myths as an answer to political crises are a recurrent phenomenon. This article demonstrates how the idea of a past golden age as the answer to a crisis of society was employed in the discourses of the Third Way: At the turn of the 20th century, the Social Democrats (SPD) in Germany and New Labour in Britain employed a golden age myth to define their politics. Analysing a corpus of texts from the Labour Party and the SPD between 1990 and 2005, this article demonstrates how global ideological trends are locally legitimized differently through the use of local political myths. The major contribution to the field of political discourse analysis lies in the discussion of mythopoesis as a legitimatory strategy, as well as in the analysis of the local adaptation of the golden age myth, which draws on Laclau’s discourse theory and its idea of empty signifiers
Populist elements in the election manifestoes of AfD and UKIP
No full textThe term populism is omnipresent in current political science and political discourse. This paper discusses, how so-called “populist” discourse is linguistically construed in the 2017 election manifestos of the German Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) and the British United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP). It does so by operationalising populism concepts from political science, specifically the difference between exclusive and inclusive populism. In order to investigate how “populist” discourses depend on the respective political culture of a discourse community, these categories are employed in a corpus based comparative politico-linguistic analysis. Based on a corpus of German and British election manifestos from 2017, the paper demonstrates that both UKIP and the AfD combine elements of in inclusive populism based on demands of a democratic renewal, and an exclusive populism based on the idea the people as a homogeneous ethnos. The discursive realisation, however, differs because of general historic and political differences such as Britain being a state of four nations and the AfD aiming to avoid a rhetoric known from Germany’s past. Particularly pronounced are differences in the delineation to the enemy “European Union” as both parties link their euro-sceptical discourse to different central signifiers of the German and British political culture
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