Contemporary Discourses of Hate and Radicalism Across Space and Genres.

Intro -- Contemporary Discourses of Hate and Radicalism across Space and Genres -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Discourses of hate and radicalism in action -- References -- Saying the unsayable -- 1. Hate speech and Holocaust denial -- 1.1 Defining hate speech -- 1.2 Holocaust denial -- 2. The Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA) -- 3. The Austrian case -- 3.1 The Verbotsgesetz -- 3.2 The "Rosenkranz affair" -- 4. The British case -- 4.1 The BBC Programme "Question Time" -- 4.2 British National Party -- 4.3 The broadcast and panellists -- 4.4 Holocaust denial and blame avoidance -- 5. Conclusion: Provoking media scandals -- References -- Dehumanizing metaphors in UK immigrant debates in press and online media -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data and methodology -- 3. Analysis -- 3.1 Overview of general metaphor scenarios relating to immigration in British public discourse -- 3.2 Immigrants as "parasites" -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- Mobilizing against the Other -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Hate speech: definitions and legal framework -- 3. Media representations of migrants and refugees -- 4. The Self and the Other in cyberspace: The Media Proximization Approach (MPA) -- 6.1 A questionnaire study -- 6.2 A corpus linguistic study -- 7.1 Results of a questionnaire study -- 5. TYLKO CHŁOPAK I DZIEWCZYNA TO NORMALNA POLSKA RODZINA!!! -- 7.2 Corpus linguistic study: Results and discussion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Legal references -- The hate that dare not speak its name? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Literature review -- 3. Method -- 3.1 Data -- 3.2 Tools and procedures -- 4. Analysis -- 4.1 Keywords -- 4.2 Gay* and homosexual* -- 4.3 Collocates -- 4.4 Terms relating to homophobia -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- References -- The paranoid style in politics -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The evolution of today's NRA.

3. The paranoid style in politics -- 5. Us vs. Them in the discourse of Second Amendment absolutism -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- The politics of being insulted -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Insulting vs. being insulted -- 3. Being publically insulted: between confrontational and emotional politics -- 4. The uses of hurt feelings in Israeli political discourse -- 4.1 Emotional politics: Hurt feelings as a tool for protesting and for gaining visibility -- 4.2 Confrontational politics: Choosing not to be insulted -- 5. Conclusions: Being insulted and the ethics of emotional discourse -- References -- Representing "terrorism" -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background and methodology -- 2.1 Creation of the corpus -- 2.2 The critical stylistic approach -- 2.3 Definitions of "terrorism" -- 3. Themes of terrorism in the corpus -- 3.1 The suspect's monologue -- 3.2 Political response -- 3.3 References to previous terrorist incidents -- 3.4 A new brand of terrorism -- 3.5 References to al-Qaeda -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix -- "Threatening other" or "role-model brother"? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The "other" as "threat": China in the discourse of the British far-right -- 2.1 Political background -- 2.2 Overview -- 2.3 The "intruder China" -- 2.4 The "Red China" -- 3. The "other" as "brother": China in the discourse of the Hungarian far-right -- 3.1 Political background -- 3.2 Overview -- 3.3 The "nominally communist China" -- 3.4 The "role-model China" -- 3.5 The "non-interfering China" -- 3.6 "Sibling China" -- 4. Summary -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Political crisis and the Rise of the Far Right in Greece -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical framework - methodology. -- 3. The discourse(s) of Golden Dawn -- 3.1 The core ideology of Golden Dawn: National Socialism -- 3.2 The cult of origins -- 3.3 Racism and anti-Semitism.

3.4 "A conspiracy against the nation" -- 3.5 The cult of leadership -- 3.6 Social conservatism -- 4. Economic crisis, crisis of hegemony and the changes in relations of representation -- 4.1 The history and emergence of Golden Dawn -- 4.2 The Greek economic and social crisis -- 4.3 From mass protest to political crisis -- 4.4 The rise of Golden Dawn -- 4.5 Golden Dawn and the authoritarian turn of mainstream politics -- 5. Can we treat Golden Dawn as the result of the nationalist and populist overtones in the anti-austerity movement? -- 5.1 The attempt to present Golden Dawn as a result of the "national-populism" of the anti-austerity movement -- 5.2 Discourses as ideological contested terrains -- 5.3 A counter-argument: the democratic and egalitarian character of the movement as an answer to fascism -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Discursive violence and responsibility -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Free speech, censorship, performativity -- 3. The ideology of the Freedom Party -- 4. The language of the Freedom Party -- 5. Criminal responsibility? The hate speech trial and the Breivik assaults -- 6. Speech acts and violence -- 7. Conclusions -- References -- Index.

This unique volume brings together various academic voices and critical reflections on discursive manifestations of hate and radicalism in contemporary public discourses. Originally published as a special issue of Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 3:1 (2015).

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