{"title":"Review of Matthiessen, Wang, Ma & Mwinlaaru (2022): Systemic Functional Insights on Language and Linguistics","authors":"Shengnan Chen, Haijuan Yan","doi":"10.1075/jlp.23138.che","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.23138.che","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51676,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140964500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Radical Right-wing populism frequently involves ‘divide and rule’ strategies as a means to attain and consolidate political power. In the cases of Viktor Orban’s political regime in Hungary and Donald Trump’s four-year presidency (and its aftermath), we find a pronounced attempt to create narrative hegemony of a sense of nation built upon Christian civilization and foundationalist understandings of national identity. Moreover, both cases reveal processes of social border-making that are reflected in norming and the creation of distinctions based on degrees of national authenticity. Applying an ontological security and critical borders studies approach, this paper will specifically focus on the different ways in which border-making processes, or bordering, are implicated in the exercise of illiberal political power in the Hungarian and US cases. Despite many similarities, the actual mobilization of popular support reflects local conditions and has resulted in rather different political outcomes.
{"title":"Border-making as illiberal politics","authors":"J. W. Scott","doi":"10.1075/jlp.23089.sco","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.23089.sco","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Radical Right-wing populism frequently involves ‘divide and rule’ strategies as a means to attain and consolidate\u0000 political power. In the cases of Viktor Orban’s political regime in Hungary and Donald Trump’s four-year presidency (and its\u0000 aftermath), we find a pronounced attempt to create narrative hegemony of a sense of nation built upon Christian civilization and\u0000 foundationalist understandings of national identity. Moreover, both cases reveal processes of social border-making that are\u0000 reflected in norming and the creation of distinctions based on degrees of national authenticity. Applying an ontological security\u0000 and critical borders studies approach, this paper will specifically focus on the different ways in which border-making processes,\u0000 or bordering, are implicated in the exercise of illiberal political power in the Hungarian and US cases. Despite many\u0000 similarities, the actual mobilization of popular support reflects local conditions and has resulted in rather different political\u0000 outcomes.","PeriodicalId":51676,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141005802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Fotiadou (2022): The Language of Employability: A Corpus-Based Analysis of UK University Websites","authors":"Jeremy Valentine","doi":"10.1075/jlp.24065.val","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.24065.val","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51676,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140656545","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
To justify the hardening of borders the populist radical right sometimes uses environmental rhetoric to frame migrants as a threat. The radical right’s environmental politics has been analysed through a focus on state borders, but less attention has been paid to the (re)production of bordering within and beyond the nation-state and to the racialising effects of such rhetoric, in other words how racial differences and hierarchies are (re)produced and justified through language on nature. Drawing on geographical literature on bordering and nationalism and postcolonial theory, this article investigates the semantic structures that convey the racist messaging. The article argues that the ‘racialized Other’ is bordered from the ’green’ homeland and Western space by utilising determinist conceptions of nature, through animalistic and environmental disaster metaphors, and by mobilising an idea of the environmentally conscious Finn as the opposite of the littering migrant.
{"title":"‘They will not survive here’","authors":"Sonja Pietiläinen","doi":"10.1075/jlp.23085.pie","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.23085.pie","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 To justify the hardening of borders the populist radical right sometimes uses environmental rhetoric to frame\u0000 migrants as a threat. The radical right’s environmental politics has been analysed through a focus on state borders, but less\u0000 attention has been paid to the (re)production of bordering within and beyond the nation-state and to the racialising effects of\u0000 such rhetoric, in other words how racial differences and hierarchies are (re)produced and justified through language on nature.\u0000 Drawing on geographical literature on bordering and nationalism and postcolonial theory, this article investigates the semantic\u0000 structures that convey the racist messaging. The article argues that the ‘racialized Other’ is bordered from the ’green’ homeland\u0000 and Western space by utilising determinist conceptions of nature, through animalistic and environmental disaster metaphors, and by\u0000 mobilising an idea of the environmentally conscious Finn as the opposite of the littering migrant.","PeriodicalId":51676,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140692612","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Augé (2023): Metaphor and Argumentation in Climate Crisis Discourse","authors":"Jie Zou, Xiyun Zhong","doi":"10.1075/jlp.24056.zou","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.24056.zou","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51676,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140696798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper draws lessons from security and populism studies to theorize how radical right-wing populism (RRWP) utilizes borders as a symbolic resource in crisis narratives to clearly frame an “Us” and a threatening “Them”. By analyzing the Hungarian Orbán regime’s evolving rhetoric on borders, the paper illustrates how populists employ crisis narratives not to mitigate, but exacerbate ontological insecurities, and thereby facilitate de-democratization by (re)shaping voter attitudes (cf. Homolar & Scholz 2019; Steele & Homolar 2019). The paper suggests that populists-in-power rely on crisis and bordering narratives beyond voter mobilization: such narratives are in fact designed to legitimize and affirm illiberal practices that undermine liberal democracy itself, and contribute to regime building. Border crises, and crisis politics, hence become a template for the manipulation of individuals’ security-of-being, and thereby a tool in the politics of reassurance and control at the broader, societal level.
{"title":"Bordering and crisis narratives to illiberal ends","authors":"A. Szalai","doi":"10.1075/jlp.23086.sza","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.23086.sza","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper draws lessons from security and populism studies to theorize how radical right-wing populism (RRWP)\u0000 utilizes borders as a symbolic resource in crisis narratives to clearly frame an “Us” and a threatening “Them”. By analyzing the\u0000 Hungarian Orbán regime’s evolving rhetoric on borders, the paper illustrates how populists employ crisis narratives not to\u0000 mitigate, but exacerbate ontological insecurities, and thereby facilitate de-democratization by (re)shaping voter attitudes (cf.\u0000 Homolar & Scholz 2019; Steele & Homolar\u0000 2019). The paper suggests that populists-in-power rely on crisis and bordering narratives beyond voter mobilization:\u0000 such narratives are in fact designed to legitimize and affirm illiberal practices that undermine liberal democracy itself, and\u0000 contribute to regime building. Border crises, and crisis politics, hence become a template for the manipulation of individuals’\u0000 security-of-being, and thereby a tool in the politics of reassurance and control at the broader, societal level.","PeriodicalId":51676,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140729920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Silvana D’Ottone, M. Varela, Diego Castro, Héctor Carvacho
In October 2019, Chile witnessed an unprecedented social uprising, with millions of citizens rising against social inequalities and injustice. The government employed various strategies to end demonstrations, including the speeches delivered by President Piñera. This study aims to explore the representation of protests and their actors in the presidential discourse and how it evolved over the course of events. Our analysis of themes, discursive actions, and attitudinal appraisals, coupled with a temporal framework, reveals that the initial framing of the uprising as a war shifted to crime rhetoric, possibly in response to negative reactions from the audience. Despite the President adopting a seemingly softer rhetoric later on, our study suggests that violence and division remained prominent themes in his speeches. Examining discourse shifts and fluctuations throughout the timeline of the social upheaval provides a comprehensive understanding of how political discourse is shaped in the midst of an unparalleled social uprising
{"title":"From war to crime rhetoric","authors":"Silvana D’Ottone, M. Varela, Diego Castro, Héctor Carvacho","doi":"10.1075/jlp.23155.dot","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.23155.dot","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In October 2019, Chile witnessed an unprecedented social uprising, with millions of citizens rising against social\u0000 inequalities and injustice. The government employed various strategies to end demonstrations, including the speeches delivered by\u0000 President Piñera. This study aims to explore the representation of protests and their actors in the presidential discourse and how\u0000 it evolved over the course of events. Our analysis of themes, discursive actions, and attitudinal appraisals, coupled with a\u0000 temporal framework, reveals that the initial framing of the uprising as a war shifted to crime rhetoric, possibly in response to\u0000 negative reactions from the audience. Despite the President adopting a seemingly softer rhetoric later on, our study suggests that\u0000 violence and division remained prominent themes in his speeches. Examining discourse shifts and fluctuations throughout the\u0000 timeline of the social upheaval provides a comprehensive understanding of how political discourse is shaped in the midst of an\u0000 unparalleled social uprising","PeriodicalId":51676,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140729123","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper addresses Benjamin Netanyahu’s border discourse in the context of radical right-wing populism. It discusses how, in the speeches and statements appearing in his official government website, Netanyahu construes groups located spatially outside Israel’s borders, mainly terrorists and migrants (the “wild beasts” and the “infiltrators”), as existential threats to Israel. The aim is to prove that, in legitimizing the militarization of borders through “security fences”, so that the “other” can be excluded from the nation, Netanyahu uses the same power geometries and discursive strategies, i.e. Proximization (Cap 2013) and dehumanizing metaphors (Santa Ana 1999, Musolff 2015, Taylor 2021), typically used by right-wing populist parties and leaders. By appealing to both populism and certain interpretations of Zionism, his ethnonationalist view of borders is based on the normalization of the discourse of delegitimation and exclusion of those groups considered as a threat to the nation.
{"title":"Of infiltrators and wild beasts","authors":"Massimiliano Demata","doi":"10.1075/jlp.23084.dem","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.23084.dem","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper addresses Benjamin Netanyahu’s border discourse in the context of radical right-wing populism. It\u0000 discusses how, in the speeches and statements appearing in his official government website, Netanyahu construes groups located\u0000 spatially outside Israel’s borders, mainly terrorists and migrants (the “wild beasts” and the “infiltrators”), as existential\u0000 threats to Israel. The aim is to prove that, in legitimizing the militarization of borders through “security fences”, so that the\u0000 “other” can be excluded from the nation, Netanyahu uses the same power geometries and discursive strategies, i.e. Proximization\u0000 (Cap 2013) and dehumanizing metaphors (Santa\u0000 Ana 1999, Musolff 2015, Taylor\u0000 2021), typically used by right-wing populist parties and leaders. By appealing to both populism and certain\u0000 interpretations of Zionism, his ethnonationalist view of borders is based on the normalization of the discourse of delegitimation\u0000 and exclusion of those groups considered as a threat to the nation.","PeriodicalId":51676,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140729597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Passage of Israel’s Jewish nationality law in 2018 shined more than usual light on the Druze citizens of Israel. It put into painful question their integration into Israeli society. Key to that integration is Druze mastery of the Jewish State’s official language; hence the question, “How do Israeli Druze learn Hebrew?” The answer is multivariable: pedagogy, gender, bilingualism, technology, religion, conscription, and socialization are all factors. Druze mastery of Hebrew through the IDF is being replaced by formal language education. This is reinforced through growing participation of Druze females in Israeli institutions. Arabic being the maternal tongue of Druze, unlike among the nation’s Jewish majority Hebrew surpasses English as their second language. Increasing use of social/digital media in Hebrew, particularly among the young, reinforces the bilingual identity of Israeli Druze. So do Hebrew language textbooks, which “Israelize” Druze by teaching about Judaism and emphasizing similarities between Jewish and Druze traditions.
{"title":"“Almost a mother tongue”","authors":"W. F. Miles","doi":"10.1075/jlp.22200.mil","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.22200.mil","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Passage of Israel’s Jewish nationality law in 2018 shined more than usual light on the Druze citizens of Israel.\u0000 It put into painful question their integration into Israeli society. Key to that integration is Druze mastery of the Jewish\u0000 State’s official language; hence the question, “How do Israeli Druze learn Hebrew?” The answer is multivariable: pedagogy, gender,\u0000 bilingualism, technology, religion, conscription, and socialization are all factors. Druze mastery of Hebrew through the IDF is\u0000 being replaced by formal language education. This is reinforced through growing participation of Druze females in Israeli\u0000 institutions. Arabic being the maternal tongue of Druze, unlike among the nation’s Jewish majority Hebrew surpasses English as\u0000 their second language. Increasing use of social/digital media in Hebrew, particularly among the young, reinforces the bilingual\u0000 identity of Israeli Druze. So do Hebrew language textbooks, which “Israelize” Druze by teaching about Judaism and emphasizing\u0000 similarities between Jewish and Druze traditions.","PeriodicalId":51676,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140730549","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper sheds light on the sociopolitical polarisation reflected in the responses to a political metaphor, in French public discourse about covid-19. The aim is to uncover how polarisation may influence metaphorical representation of a political issue. The study focuses on the French President’s metaphor “we are at war”, in his announcement of the national lockdown. Responses to this “war” metaphor in public discourse are analysed following a combination of metaphor theories and argumentation theories. Results show that such responses transformed the ”war” metaphor into the “phoney war” metaphor for covid-19. This yielded four main arguments which 1.established causals links between covid-19 and policies, 2.partially endorsed the metaphor, 3.focused on the President’s discursive pattern, and 4.focused on the President’s status. It is argued that more research is needed into public reception to political discourse, in view of the arguments derived from resistance to metaphor.
{"title":"France’s “drôle de guerre”","authors":"Anaïs Augé","doi":"10.1075/jlp.22047.aug","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.22047.aug","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper sheds light on the sociopolitical polarisation reflected in the responses to a political metaphor, in\u0000 French public discourse about covid-19. The aim is to uncover how polarisation may influence metaphorical representation of a\u0000 political issue. The study focuses on the French President’s metaphor “we are at war”, in his announcement of the national\u0000 lockdown. Responses to this “war” metaphor in public discourse are analysed following a combination of metaphor theories and\u0000 argumentation theories. Results show that such responses transformed the ”war” metaphor into the “phoney war” metaphor for\u0000 covid-19. This yielded four main arguments which 1.established causals links between covid-19 and policies, 2.partially endorsed\u0000 the metaphor, 3.focused on the President’s discursive pattern, and 4.focused on the President’s status. It is argued that more\u0000 research is needed into public reception to political discourse, in view of the arguments derived from resistance to metaphor.","PeriodicalId":51676,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Language and Politics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140755618","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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