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This timely intervention exposes the euphemized language of the extreme right as a Trojan Horse of deception to re-gain greater influence on public policy.
Since the end of the Second World War, the extreme right has been tactically using doublespeak , aping the language of liberal democracy. Attentive observation and accurate recognition of the extreme right pedigree means taking seriously their deliberately crafted slogans, symbols and themes. The essays in this book inquire into the extreme right s attempts at repackaging contemporary ultranationalism to make it palatable to more mainstream European and American tastes.
List of contents
Introduction, by Matthew Feldman and Paul JacksonPart 1. Manipulation of the Masses1. 'Lingua Quarti Imperii': The Euphemistic in the Extreme Right, by Roger Griffin2. Toxic Rhetoric: The Language of The Turner Diaries: A Novel, by Janet Wilson3. 2083 -- a European Declaration of Independence: A License to Kill, by Paul Jackson4. The Strategy of Discursive Provocation: A Discourse-Historical Analysis of the FPO's Discriminatory Rhetoric, by Ruth WodakPart 2. Western Europe and the USA5. 'Teaching the Truth to the Harcore': The Public and Private Presentation of BNP Ideology, by Graham Macklin6. Wavering Between Radical and Moderate: The Discourse of the Vlaams Belang in Flanders (Belgium), by Hilde Coffe and Jeroen Dewulf7. Defending Dutch Freedom: The Far Right in the Netherlands: 1932--2012, by Koen Vossen8. Far Right Rhetoric in the United States: A Carnival of Buncombe, by Leonard WeinbergPart 3. Central, Southern, and Eastern Europe9. A Cast Study of Anti-Semitism in the Language and Politics of the Contemporary Far Right in Germany, by Gideon Botsch and Christoph Kopke10. 'Fascism for the Third Millennium': An Overview of Language and Ideology in Italy's CasaPound Movement, by Anna Castriota and Matthew Feldman11. Anti-Semitism on the Curriculum: MAUP -- the Interregional Assumbly for Personnel Management, by Per Anders Rudling12. Language of Authorities and Radical Nationalists, by Alexander VerkhovskyPart 4. Afterword12. Heroes Know Which Villains to Kill: How Coded Rhetoric Incites Scripted Violence, by Chip BerletIndex
About the author
Dr. Ruth Wodak ist Professorin für Angewandte Sprachwissenschaft am Institut für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Wien.
Gideon Botsch, Dr. phil., geboren 1970, ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Moses Mendelssohn Zentrum Potsdam im Forschungsschwerpunkt Antisemitismus- und Rechtsextremismusforschung und langjährige Tätigkeit in der historisch-politischen Bildungsarbeit und Gedenkstättenpädagogik. Seine Forschungsinteressen und Veröffentlichungen sind: Die extreme Rechte in Geschichte und Gegenwart; Rassismus und Antisemitismus; Jüdische Sozialgeschichte; Nationalsozialistische Herrschaft.
