Language aggression in public debates on immigration / edited by Andreas Musolff, University of East Anglia.

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Language aggression in public debates on immigration / Andreas Musolff -- Thinking globally, acting locally: analyzing the adaptation of mainstream supremacist concepts to a local socio-historical context (Elam in Cyprus) / Fabienne H. Baider -- Conditional support for territorial migrations in Serbian national discourse / Jelena Petrovic -- In transit: representations of migration on the Balkan route: discourse analysis of Croatian and Serbian public broadcasters (RTS and HRT online) / Tatjana Radanovic Felberg and ljiljana ¿aric -- "We mustn't fool ourselves": "Orbánian" discourse in the political battle over the refugee crisis and European identity / Agnes Bolonyai and Kelsey Campolong -- "A great and beautiful wall": Donald Trump's populist discourse on immigration / Massimiliano Demata -- Xenophobic trumpeters: a corpus-assisted discourse study of Donald Trump's Facebook conversations / Natalia Knoblock -- Donald Trump supporters and the denial of racism: an analysis of online discourse in a pro-Trump community / Nicholas Close Subtirelu.

The global rise in the number, size and complexity of migration flows has not only resulted in an unprecedented flurry of debates and negotiations about how to deal with it through economic, social, and military policies but also in a huge increase in racist and xenophobic language use and discriminatory discourse. The expression of aggression and hatred in (anti- )immigration debates and its relationship to racism and its pseudo-justification lie at the center of this volume.00Its seven main contributions provide exemplary analyses of European and US debates that instrumentalize anti-immigrant attitudes: on the one hand among far-right populists in Cyprus, in Serbian and Croatian nationalism, and in the Hungarian government?s attempts at legitimizing immigration exclusion, and on the other hand in discourses associated with US-president Trump and his followers, including racists? tactical denial of racism. Methodologically, all studies pursue corpus-based Critical Discourse Analysis, with foci on lexical, figurative, argumentative and discourse-historical patterns. Together, they show the convergence of populist polemic strategies.

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