Full Description
This unique volume brings together various academic voices and critical reflections on discursive manifestations of hate and radicalism in contemporary public discourses. The authors venture into an array of socio-political contexts and public spaces, providing a compelling overview of similarities and divergences, continuities and discontinuities, outward hatred and the "politics of denial", the use of collective symbols and construction of individual identities. Multiple genres are taken under scrutiny, including blogs, forums, internet websites and newspaper coverage, political speeches and debates, news reports and broadcast interactions, with a view to capturing the themes and pragma-rhetorical strategies within texts abundant with radical and hateful messages. In addition to examining discourse dynamics and the underlying logic of such texts, the contributors to this monograph explore the ideological motivations and the consequences they might have for social actions on both an individual and collective level.
Highly relevant in the contemporary world, divided by conflicts, power and resource struggles, right-wing extremism, and crusades against the imaginary Other, the book presents state-of-the-art interdisciplinary research that should be of interest to specialists in pragmatics, rhetoric, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, as well as media and communication studies.
Originally published as a special issue of Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 3:1 (2015).
Contents
1. Introduction; 2. Discourses of hate and radicalism in action (by Kopytowska, Monika); 3. Saying the unsayable: Denying the Holocaust in media debates in Austria and the UK (by Wodak, Ruth); 4. Dehumanizing metaphors in UK immigrant debates in press and online media (by Musolff, Andreas); 5. Mobilizing against the Other: Cyberhate, refugee crisis and proximization (by Kopytowska, Monika); 6. The hate that dare not speak its name? (by Love, Robbie); 7. The paranoid style in politics: Ideological underpinnings of the discourse of Second Amendment absolutism (by Hodges, Adam); 8. The politics of being insulted: The uses of hurt feelings in Israeli public discourse (by Kampf, Zohar); 9. Representing "terrorism": The radicalisation of the May 2013 Woolwich attack in British press reportage (by Evans, Matthew); 10. "Threatening other" or "role-model brother"?: China in the eyes of the British and Hungarian far-right (by Szilagyi, Anna); 11. Political crisis and the Rise of the Far Right in Greece: Racism, nationalism, authoritarianism and conservatism in the discourse of Golden Dawn (by Sotiris, Panagiotis); 12. Discursive violence and responsibility: Notes on the pragmatics of Dutch populism (by Leezenberg, Michiel)
