Doublespeak : the rhetoric of the Far Right since 1945 / Matthew Feldman, Paul Jackson (eds.).

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TextSeries: Explorations of the far right ; 3.Publisher: Stuttgart, Germant : Ibidem-Verlag, 2014Description: 1 online resource (334 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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9783838265544
3838265548
9783838205540
3838205545

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Doublespeak.DDC classification:

320.5/3 23

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HN49.R33 D68 2014

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Part 1. Manipulations of the message. 'Lingua quarti imperii' : the euphemistic tradition of the extreme right / Roger Griffin. Toxic rhetoric : the language of The Turner diaries, a novel / Janet Wilson. 2083 -- a European declaration of independence : a license to kill / Paul Jackson. The strategy of discursive provocation : a discourse-historical analysis of the FPÖ's discriminatory rhetoric / Ruth Wodak -- part 2. Western Europe and the USA. 'Teaching the truth to the hardcore' : the public and private presentation of BNP ideology / Graham Macklin. Wavering between radical and moderate : the discourse of the Vlaams Belang in Flanders (Belgium) / Hilde Coffé and Jeroen Dewulf. Defending Dutch freedom : the far right in the Netherlands, 1932-2012 / Koen Vossen. Far right rhetoric in the United States : a carnival of buncombe / Leonard Weinberg -- part 3. Central, Southern and Eastern Europe. A case study of anti-Semitism in the language and politics of the contemporary far right in Germany / Gideon Botsch and Christoph Kopke. 'Fascism for the third millennium' : an overview of language and ideology in Italy's CasaPound movement / Anna Castriota and Matthew Feldman. Anti-Semitism on the curriculum : MAUP -- the Interregional Academy for Personnel Management / Per Anders Rudling. Language of authorities and radical nationalists / Alexander Verkhovsky -- part 4. Afterword. Heroes know which villains to kill : how coded rhetoric incites scripted violence / Chip Berlet.

Summary: This timely intervention exposes the euphemized language of the extreme right as a deceptive attempt to secure greater influence over public policy. Since the end of World War II, the extreme right has made strategic use of ?doublespeak," which apes the language of liberal democracy. Attentive observation and accurate recognition of these tactics means taking the extreme right's deliberately crafted slogans, symbols, and themes seriously. These essays investigate the extreme right's attempts at ?repackaging" contemporary ultranationalism to make it more palatable to mainstream European an.

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This timely intervention exposes the euphemized language of the extreme right as a deceptive attempt to secure greater influence over public policy. Since the end of World War II, the extreme right has made strategic use of ?doublespeak," which apes the language of liberal democracy. Attentive observation and accurate recognition of these tactics means taking the extreme right's deliberately crafted slogans, symbols, and themes seriously. These essays investigate the extreme right's attempts at ?repackaging" contemporary ultranationalism to make it more palatable to mainstream European an.

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