Die Sprache der Populisten

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johannes Schaefer
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Concept ◽  
Political Struggle ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
German Bundestag ◽  
Broad Understanding

Language constitutes the arena of political debate and is therefore itself the object of political struggle. But what language do populists speak? Existing research on this subject attests to its importance without being able to substantiate this empirically. This study examines the election programmes of the parties and the first ‘general debate’ in the 19th German Bundestag in order to understand what is really specific to populists’ use of language. Starting from a broad understanding of language, the author develops the theoretical concept of party language and applies a modified variant of linguistic multilevel discourse analysis. In the end, he identifies six characteristics of the language of populists.

scholarly journals Scottish Press Coverage of UK General Elections after Devolution: the 2001 and 2005 Campaigns

2009 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Dekavalla
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Press Coverage ◽  
Election Campaign ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
Research Project ◽  
General Elections ◽  
Selection Of

This paper presents preliminary findings from a wider study into the form that political debate takes in Scottish and English/UK newspapers’ reporting of the 2001 and the 2005 UK Elections. The research project aims to contribute to the discussion regarding the role played by the Scottish press in political deliberation after devolution and compares its contribution to the electoral debate with that of newspapers bought in England. This paper explores the results of a content analysis of articles from daily Scottish and UK newspapers during the four weeks of each election campaign period. This reveals that, despite some differences, the overall picture of the coverage of major election issues is consistent. A selection of the coverage of taxation, the most mentioned reserved issue in the 2001 campaign, is subsequently analysed using critical discourse analysis, and the results suggest more distinction between the two sets of newspapers.

scholarly journals Exploring Intersectionality: Theoretical Concept and Potential Methodological Efficacy in the Context of Nepal

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 148-168
Author(s):  
Rabindra Chaulagain ◽  
Laxmi Pathak
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Structural Violence ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Theoretical Concept ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Intersectionality Theory ◽  
Social Divisions ◽  
Systemic Discrimination ◽  
Positivist Approach

This article engages in theoretical discussions of intersectionality on such issues as: how does Kimberle Crenshaw's intersectionality theory function in various forms of social divisions, and how do various scholars respond to it? Why is intersectionality theoretically and methodologically critical to examining Nepali political and social contexts, especially on women and Dalit's issues? This article examines the overview of intersectional theoretical standpoints explicitly based on Crenshaw's ideas and how it problematizes political practices of domination and discrimination against minority groups in societies today. Rather than providing an empirical and positivist approach to findings, this write-up offers a theoretical framework that helps conceptualize and utilize it in examining power exercise and politics in the Nepali context. It emphasizes discourse analysis to explore the systemic discrimination and the genealogy of structural violence to moot debates about central and marginal subjects concerning women and Dalit issues in Nepal.

scholarly journals Disciplinary power and practices of body politics: an evaluation of Dalit women in Bama’s Sangati and P. Sivakami’s The Grip of Change through Foucauldian discourse analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aditya Ghosh
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Active Site ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Body Politics ◽  
Dominant Male ◽  
Political Struggle ◽  
Disciplinary Power ◽  
The Social ◽  
Dalit Women ◽  
Female Bodies

AbstractThrough a Foucauldian reading of Bama’s Sangati (2005) and P. Sivakami’s The Grip of Change (2006a, 2006b), this paper attempts to delineate the permeation and maintenance of disciplinary power in the social structure and assertion of patriarchal politics in the subjugation of Dalit female bodies. The detrimental politics of patriarchal discourse, the paper argues, degrades the existence of Dalit women, and excludes them from the equation of power relations by delimiting their access to society’s productive resources and restricting their sexuality. Disciplinary power, which acts as a patriarchal tool, prescribes acceptable gestures and required behaviour, and through constant surveillance normalizes a dominant male order. It reduces Dalit women’s existence into an amorphous property, readily mutilated and moulded under the whims of a phallocentric order. Discursive practices further constitute practices of body politics, making the female body an object of active site of political struggle. The paper studies Sangati and The Grip of Change as literary exemplars to demonstrate how disciplinary power, as underscored by Foucault’s discourse analysis, intervenes and determines the life of Dalit women. It not only lays bare the covert body politics of patriarchy with the unfiltered depiction of women’s exploitation and atrocities, but also represents a paradigm shift by advocating ways of emancipation for Dalit women.

The myth of Sweden’s success: A deconstructive reading of the discourses in gender mainstreaming texts

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 455-469 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renée Andersson
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Theoretical Concept ◽  
Gender Mainstreaming ◽  
Policy Objective ◽  
Vital Part ◽  
Academic Texts

This article investigates discourses of Sweden’s success in gender mainstreaming. Using the theoretical concept of myth, discourse analysis is performed on different categories of texts (including academic texts, grey papers and official reports). The aim is to analyse how this discourse of success is constructed and to increase the understanding of its components. The themes identified in the reading include adaptation, integration, volume and initiatives. In conclusion, it is argued that a conflation of gender mainstreaming (viewed as a strategy) with gender equality (as a policy objective) has been a vital part of the construction of Sweden as the best case of gender mainstreaming.

scholarly journals Gender Knowledge, and Opposition to the Feminist Project: Extreme-Right Populist Parties in the Netherlands

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 20-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mieke Verloo
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Theoretical Concept ◽  
Theoretical Argument ◽  
Extreme Right ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
Institutional Settings ◽  
Feminist Politics ◽  
Normative Significance ◽  
Epistemic Dimension ◽  
Gender Knowledge

This article aims to better understand current opposition to feminist politics by analyzing positions of extreme-right populist parties on gender knowledge, “explicit and implicit representations concerning the differences between the sexes and the relations between them, the origins and normative significance of these, the rationale and evidence underpinning them and their material form” (Cavaghan, 2017, p. 48). These understandings contribute to constructing a societal truth on gender and/or to setting the terms of the political debate about gender issues. This article introduces and uses the theoretical concept of episteme to highlight the systematic nature of discursive institutional settings, and the role knowledge and truth production plays in processes reproducing or countering gender inequality. The article analyzes the positions of extreme-right populist parties in the Netherlands and their discursive attacks on the feminist project in the Netherlands, in which these opponents use a redefined concept of ‘cultural Marxism’. Through this analysis, the article illustrates the theoretical argument that epistemic dynamics play a strong role in opposition to feminist politics, that the shifting epistemic framing of science is important in these oppositions and that more comprehensive attention for the epistemic dimension is needed.

9. Discursive Approaches

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ole Wæver
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
European Integration ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Policy Options ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Political Struggle ◽  
European Union Enlargement ◽  
The Third ◽  
Theory Of Discourse

This chapter examines discourse analysis as an approach to the study of European integration. It first provides an overview of the basic idea(s) underlying discourse analysis before tracing its philosophical roots. It then considers when and how discourse analysis entered political science, international relations, and European integration studies. It also explores three examples of bodies of work that have each operationalized discourse analysis in a particular way in order to make it speak to European integration: the first covers governance and political struggle; the second approach posits the configuration of concepts of nation, state, and Europe as the basis for building theory of discourse as layered structures able to explain foreign policy options for a given state; and the third focuses on the project of European integration as a productive paradox. The chapter concludes by discussing the application of discourse analysis to the nature of the European Union enlargement process.

Deliberations in the Turkish parliament

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 258-284
Author(s):  
Meltem Müftüler-Baç ◽  
Rahime Süleymanoğlu-Kürüm
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
The Political ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Political Struggle ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Parliamentary Debates ◽  
Political Perceptions ◽  
Turkish Politics

Parliamentarians find themselves engaged in political struggle through the medium of language and constrained by their own rhetoric. These parliamentary debates reveal political perceptions. The external perceptions about the European Union emerge as a relatively understudied topic in political science. This brings forth the following question; how is the European Union and its foreign policy perceived externally? This paper focuses on one particular country, Turkey and the political deliberations within the Turkish Parliament, in order to assess the external perceptions of the EU. The paper analyzes the political debate in Turkey through an investigation of the proceedings of the Turkish Parliament, the legislature in Turkish politics, from 1998 to 2012. The proceedings in the Turkish Parliament enable us to analyze the different political camps’ positions by looking into their deliberations on the European foreign policy thoroughly. This analysis enables us to uncover the Turkish view on the European foreign policy.

scholarly journals 8. Discourse and European Integration

2018 ◽  
pp. 151-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Wodak
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
European Integration ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Political Struggle ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
European Union Enlargement ◽  
The Third ◽  
Discourse Studies

This chapter examines discourse analysis as an approach to the study of European integration. It first provides an overview of the basic principles underlying discourse studies before tracing its philosophical roots. It then considers when and how discourse studies entered political science, international relations, and European integration studies. It explores three examples of bodies of work that have each operationalized discourse (analysis) in a particular way in order to make it speak to European integration: the first covers governance and political struggle; the second approach posits the discursive configuration of concepts of nation, state, and Europe as layered structures able to explain foreign policy options for a given state; and the third focuses on the project of European integration as a productive paradox. The chapter concludes with a case study on the mediatization and politicization of the refugee crisis in Austria from 2015-2016 by discussing the application of discourse analysis to the nature of the European Union enlargement process.

scholarly journals The Application of Functional Theory: Indonesian Presidential Debate

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wahyuningsih Wahyuningsih ◽  
Deli Nirmala
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Language Function ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
Functional Theory ◽  
Political Debates ◽  
Political Discourse Analysis ◽  
Presidential Debate

<em>Functional theory is a one of theories that are common used on the research of political debates in American campaign discourse. In the present article, Indonesian presidential debate is analyzed from the perspective of functional theory. The goal of this study is to analyze language function produced by candidates and to evaluate the applicability of functional theory in analyzing Indonesian presidential debate. The authors employ qualitative method in analyzing data. Supporting instruments in analyzing data were functional theory and political discourse analysis (PDA). PDA used in interpreting language function in political context. While, functional theory provides three functions, namely: attacks, defends, and acclaims. The finding shows that two different axioms are found. The first is the use of attack more than defense; it is line with the prediction of functional theory that has been tested in American political debate. Second, the use of acclaims less than attack, it differs in a way from the prediction of functional theory. Fundamentally, functional theory can be used as an instrument in analysis political debates in Indonesia even though the findings were not exactly consistence with the prediction. Thereby, the theory needs to be developed discursively</em>.

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