The Politics of Fear: What Right-Wing Populist Discourses Mean - Softcover

Wodak, Ruth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1446247007 ISBN 13: 9781446247006

Verlag: Sage Publications Ltd, 2015

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Winner of the Austrian Book Prize for the 2016 German translation, in the category of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Populist right-wing politics is moving centre-stage, with some parties reaching the very top of the electoral ladder: but do we know why, and why now?

In this book Ruth Wodak traces the trajectories of such parties from the margins of the political landscape to its centre, to understand and explain how they are transforming from fringe voices to persuasive political actors who set the agenda and frame media debates. Laying bare the normalization of nationalistic, xenophobic, racist and antisemitic rhetoric, she builds a new framework for this ‘politics of fear’ that is entrenching new social divides of nation, gender and body.

The result reveals the micro-politics of right-wing populism: how discourses, genres, images and texts are performed and manipulated in both formal and also everyday contexts with profound consequences. This book is a must-read for scholars and students of linguistics, media and politics wishing to understand these dynamics that are re-shaping our political space.

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Ruth Wodak is Distinguished Professor and Chair in Discouse Studies at Lancaster University.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Sage Publications Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1446247007
• ISBN 13: 9781446247006
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 238
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