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- Boréus, Kristina, 1959-, et al.
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Critical Discourse Studies
- 2024
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In: Analyzing Text and Discourse. - London : Sage Publications. - 9781529601954
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)
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- Borza, Natalia, et al.
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Populism and populism studies Theories and contributions
- 2023
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In: Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture. - 1569-9463. ; 101, s. 17-34
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In this chapter, we will lay the foundation for the case studies in the subsequent chapters. To this end, we will make explicit our understanding of populism, which links the individual contexts discussed in the remainder of this book. In this book, we define populism as a political strategy and/or practice, realised in discourse, that is based on a dichotomy between "the people", who are unified by their will, and an outgroup whose actions are not in the interest of the people, with a leader safeguarding the interests of the people against the outgroup. In addition, we will discuss relevant previous literature to identify the research gap in the study of populism and language, and argue how our book contributes to filling that gap. To achieve these two aims, we will first sketch the common theoretical background that informs all chapters of the book. We will develop a definition of populism and populist parties, paying particular attention to differences between right- and left-wing populism and indeed the validity of those terms themselves. Following on from those general considerations, we narrow the focus to the question how populism is realised in discourse and language use. We ask how populism and discourse are related and discuss the notion of populism as discourse. To conclude our theoretical discussion, we ask why populism has become a globalphenomenon and review what we know so far about voters and supporters of populist parties, candidates and causes. Moving from theory to a review of relevant previous works, the second main section of this chapter will position the book in relation to past discourse analytical research on populism. We start with a review of works on populism as it is enacted on social media, before proceeding to discuss what we already know about populism and language in European contexts. As this book is specifically about the way supporters of populist parties use language, we round off the second section of this chapter by reviewing work on that aspect. We conclude the chapter by demonstrating how the present book draws together three important aspects of populism - its expression on social media, its character across Europe and the role of supporters - and investigates them from a discourse analytical and linguistic point of view. First, however, let us turn to theoretical frameworks.
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- Gustafsson, Anna W., et al.
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Sweden "Go Jimmie go!" : The voices of Sweden Democrat supporters
- 2023
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In: Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture. - 1569-9463. ; 101, s. 257-279
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The Sweden Democrats is a nationalist right-wing populist party with roots in neo-Nazism and white supremacist beliefs. The party has experienced continuous progress during the last decade in Sweden, attracting 20.5 per cent of the vote in the general election of 2022. A combination of discourse analytical methods is applied to study the comment sections of the party's official social media accounts during the EU election 2019 in order to explore what topics are most engaging to the supporters and what discursive strategies the supporters use to position themselves in relation to politicians, to other parties or to political topics. Particular attention is paid to the role of affirmative and evaluative practices to build ingroup identity.
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- Hultin Morger, Fabia, 1991-
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«Und denn hemmer eifach e Burka bracht» : Sprachwissenschaftliche Studien zu Memes im politischen Diskurs in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz
- 2023
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- In this compilation thesis I examine Internet memes within the political discourse of the three major German-speaking countries Austria, Germany and Switzerland. The analysis incorporates several theoretical and methodological approaches, including politolinguistics and discourse studies, text linguistics, multimodality theory and media linguistics. The central driving questions of this research are as follows:How does political language manifest visually and textually in memes? What role do the Internet, social network platforms, and their affordances play in the creation and dissemination of memes? How do memes contribute to diverse political discourses? Three distinct studies examine memes within different contexts to address these questions:Study 1 investigates memes as satirical texts, analyzing a collection of memes published by two German TV news parodies on their Facebook platform. These memes focus on the 2017 G-20 summit held in Hamburg. The dataset comprises 27 memes, along with public Facebook comments accompanying these memes. Applying medialinguistic approaches and concepts from discourse analysis, this study explores how memes employ satire and interact with the Internet as a medium, particularly on the Facebook platform.Study 2 concentrates on memes within political campaigns. For this purpose, a collection of 64 memes published on the Swiss political group Operation Libero's Facebook page during referendum campaigns was gathered. A close reading, drawing from both multimodality theory and the discourse historical approach, addresses questions about how arguments are constructed within internet memes in terms of both image and text, as well as how memes interact with the broader political discourse.Study 3 examines memes from Austria, Germany and Switzerland as populist texts, applying Moffitt's conceptualization of populist style (2016). A data-based investigation rooted in the discourse historical approach and multimodality theory analyzes memes with varying political alignments. The study assesses how these memes express features of populist style, such as the appeal to the people vs. the elite, the use of bad manners, and the performance of crisis. Special focus is given to the political context and the semiotic resources used to convey populist themes.The introductory chapter provides insights into various definitions of memes and their historical development, culminating in the identification of eight prototypical characteristics. These characteristics serve as the foundation for subsequent analyses.In summary, this research underscores the significance of memes as a mode of political expression in the digital age. Analyzing political memes provides valuable insights into the evolving landscape of political language and discourse in an increasingly online political environment.
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- Koller, Veronika, et al.
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Voices of Supporters : Populist parties, social media and the 2019 European elections
- 2023
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Book (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This book addresses an under-researched area within populism studies: the discourse of supporters of populist parties. Taking the 2019 European elections as their case study, the authors analyse how supporters in eleven different countries construct identities and voting motivations on social media. The individual chapters comprise a range of methods to investigate data from different social media platforms, defining populism as a political strategy and/or practice, realised in discourse, that is based on a dichotomy between “the people”, who are unified by their will, and an out-group whose actions are not in the interest of the people, with a leader safeguarding the interests of the people against the out-group. The book identifies what motivates people to vote for populist parties, what role national identities and values play in those motivations, and how the social media postings of populist parties are recontextualised in supporters’ comments to serve as a voting motivation.
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- Savola, Kristiina, 1989-
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Rajanvetoja ja vastakkainasetteluja : Diskursiiviset strategiat suomalaisten poliitikkojen blogiteksteissä vaalivuonna 2015
- 2024
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- In this monograph thesis, I examine political confrontations, their actors, conflict lines, discursive strategies, linguistic means, and related topics in Finnish politicians’ blog texts. Additionally, I analyse the occurrences of populist communication styles within these politicians’ blog discourses.The data consists of blog texts from nine ideologically diverse politicians from the Finnish parliamentary election year of 2015. The study is grounded in Critical Discourse Studies (Reisigl & Wodak 2016) and employs methods of rhetorical-performative discourse analysis (Palonen & Saresma 2017), along with political theories of politics and populism (Laclau 2005; Moffitt 2016; Mouffe 2005, 2013; Palonen 2020).The first part of the analysis explores the core topics in the data: economic politics and immigration politics, along with their related discourses. Discourses on economic politics in the blogs of government politicians include defending the welfare state, and advocating for citizens’ equalisation, viewing citizens as a socio-economically homogeneous group. Additionally, they address confrontation as a political obstacle and the necessity of economic measures. Opposition politicians' blogs, on the other hand, feature a discourse defending citizens against the government’s planned and implemented economic cuts.Discourses on immigration politics in government politicians’ blogs frame asylum seekers as a threat and migration as a cause of societal polarisation in Finland, while also opening up a human right discourse that views asylum seekers from a humanitarian perspective. In opposition politicians’ blogs, the predominant discourse defends asylum seekers.These topics are linked to ongoing global crises, such as the so-called refugee crisis and the aftermath of the 2008 economic crisis. Government politicians focus on their impacts on Finland and Europe, while opposition politicians emphasise Finland’s role as a responsible actor and mediator in international politics.The second part of the analysis examines conflict lines, discursive strategies, and linguistic means involved in confrontations. Strategic dimensions of the confrontations include a populist division between ‘the people’ and ‘the elites’, as well as between ‘the people’ and media and researchers. Strategies also involve affective defence of socially vulnerable groups, ideological opposition, equalisation of citizens, consensus-seeking, holding citizens accountable, and community building.Confrontations occur at the level of discursive strategies, lexical, metaphorical, rhetorical, and structural choices in the blog texts, and in the intertextual relations between the texts. Linguistically, these confrontations are produced through negative labelling of opponents, actor-distancing generic constructions (passive verbs, and the Finnish zero person), metaphors like water, war, sport, and the nation as a body, as well as empty and floating signifiers, euphemisms, antitheses, and irony.In summary, confrontation is a political positioning strategy used to legitimise politicians’ positions and agendas, create and maintain in-groups and out-groups, and defend them from hypothetically threatening actors and forces, who in turn are delegitimised. Additionally, confrontations are utilised to shape perceptions of political reality, criticise, and highlight other actors’ responsibilities.
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- Seiler Brylla, Charlotta, 1968-
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’Alla ska med i det gröna folkhemmet’ : En politolingvistisk analys av Miljöpartiets valkampanj 2022
- 2023
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In: Sakprosa. - 1502-6000 .- 1891-5108. ; 15:3, s. 1-32
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Artikeln analyserar teman, centrala koncept och andra språkliga medel i Miljöpartiet de Grönas valkampanj 2022. Med utgångspunkt i politolingvistisk teori och metod analyseras språkliga och visuella representationer från bl a valmanifest, valfilm, valaffischer och partiets inlägg på Facebook-, Instagram- och Twitter inför valet. Klimatfrågan stod i centrum för Miljöpartiets kommunikation, men samtidigt breddade partiet sin politiska profil och gick till val med ett uttalat löfte om stärkt välfärd för de svaga och utsatta, t ex genom att rekontextualisera socialdemokratiskt språkbruk. Språkligt komprimerades partiets politiska vision i nyckelordet det nya gröna folkhemmet. De apokalyptiska argumentationsmönster som Miljöpartiet använde i valet 2018 ersattes med den framtidsoptimistiska och inkluderande parollen Alla ska med när Sverige ställer om. Den breddade profilen kommunicerades i mediala framträdanden och kampanjmaterial, medan inläggen i sociala medier snarast adresserade kärnväljare och klimatfrågan.
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- Seiler Brylla, Charlotta, 1968-
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"Andere über uns" : Leserbriefe als strategische Kommunikation in der DDR-Revue der 1980er Jahre
- 2021
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In: Moderna Språk. - : Tidskriften Moderna Språk. - 2000-3560. ; 115:2, s. 83-104
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Bis 1989, als der Zusammenbruch der DDR seinen Anfang nahm, befand sich der Staat in einer ständigen Systemkonkurrenz – sowohl im eigenen Land als auch im Ausland. In der sogenannten Auslandsinformation oder Auslandspropaganda ging es darum, die Vorteile des Sozialismus zu zeigen und die Nachteile des Kapitalismus zu enthüllen. Die Zeitschrift DDR-Revue, die 1956-1990 monatlich in acht Sprachen erschien, war für die Auslandsinformation der DDR in Westeuropa das wichtigste schriftliche Informationsmedium.Dieser Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit den sprachlichen Strategien der Auslandsinformation der DDR. Mithilfe einer Analyse von Leserbriefen in der DDR-Revue der 1980er Jahre soll die auslandsinformatorische Methode „Andere über uns“ in den Blick genommen werden. Die Leserbriefe kamen aus verschiedenen Ländern und sollten illustrieren, dass es zahlreiche Leser/innen und DDR-Freund/innen auch im nicht-sozialistischen Ausland gab.Die Analyse fokussiert auf die narrativen Strukturen und Strategien in den Leserbriefen und fragt danach, was und wie über die DDR und ihren Bürger/innen erzählt wird. Durch eine Analyse der Themen und der sprachlichen Handlungsmuster der untersuchten Texte wird die Textsorte des Leserbriefs im Rahmen eines totalitären Settings untersucht. Es wird gezeigt, dass die Leserbriefe ihre prototypische Funktion zugunsten einer Propagierung sozialistischer Werte eingebüßt haben. Transportiert wurden letztlich die gleichen Themen wie in allen anderen Texten und Textsorten der Auslandspropaganda, um das „andere“ Deutschland als Vorbild zu zeigen. Durch die Methode „Andere über uns“ entstand jedoch die Möglichkeit, die zentralen Themen der Auslandsinformation mit einer anderen Stimme auszudrücken und eine bestimmte Popularität des Sozialismus im westlichen Ausland zu suggerieren.
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- Seiler Brylla, Charlotta, 1968-
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Den beväpnade freden : språk och politik i det delade Tyskland
- 2020
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Book (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Den 3 oktober 1990 upphörde DDR (Östtyskland) att existera och uppgick i Förbundsrepubliken Tyskland. Processen som går under namnet den tyska återföreningen föregicks av de händelser som i efterhand kom att betecknas med begrepp som die Wende (vändpunkten) och die friedliche Revolution (den fredliga revolutionen) och som kulminerade i och med Berlinmurens öppnande 9 november 1989. När Tyskland efter andra världskriget delades i två stater blev skiljelinjen mellan dem terrorbalansens epicentrum. En strid kom att utspelas mellan öst och väst, där de båda tyska staterna ansåg sig vara moraliskt överlägsen den andra, och därmed utgöra den enda legitima representanten för det demokratiska Tyskland. Sverige drogs in i en dragkamp, där inte minst språket utgjorde en stark påverkansfaktor. Boken blottlägger den östtyska utlandspropagandan och hur den gjorde avtryck i svenska texter i så vitt skilda genrer som massmedia, reseguider och läroböcker. Dessa historiska skeenden är högaktuella idag, eftersom framgången för högernationalistiska rörelser i Tyskland bara kan förstås mot bakgrund av det delade - och återförenade - Tyskland.
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