General Information

Author/Creator

Reisigl, Martin, 1969-

Language

English.

Published

London ; New York : Routledge, 2001.

Physical Description

xiv, 298 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Contributors

Contributor

Wodak, Ruth, 1950-

Contents/Summary

Summary

Discourse and Discrimination is a study of how racism, anti-semitism and ethnicism are reflected in discourse. Through the analysis of an impressive variety of documents, Reisigl and Wodak present detailed case studies of anti-semitism, institutional racism and political xenophobia in Austria. The book provides a survey of different discourse analysis approaches, analysing the strengths and weaknesses of each, and concludes with the authors' own model of Critical Discourse Analysis.

Subjects

Subject

Racism > Austria > History.

Antisemitism > Austria > History.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Martin Reisigl and Ruth Wodak.

Content

1. 'Race', racism and discourse: an interdisciplinary, historical and methodical overview. -- The concepts of 'race' and 'racism' -- How to explain 'racism' -- Four discourse-analytical approaches to racism -- 2. The discourse-historical analysis of the rhetoric of racism and antisemitism -- A context-sensitive, discourse-historical approach -- 'Even black Africans': a short discourse-historical analysis -- 3. The coding of a taboo: antisemitic everyday discourse in postwar Austria -- The political and historical Austrian context and the 'Waldheim Affair' -- The discourse about the 'Waldheim Affair' -- A segment of the semi-official written discourse -- Everyday discourse: conversations on the street -- 4. 'Aliens' and 'Foreigners': the political and media discourse about the Austria First Petition of Jorg Haider and the Austrian Freedom Party in 1992 and 1993 144 -- Some historical information about Austria -- The Austria First Petition -- The campaign for and against the petition -- Some newspaper commentaries concerning the petition -- The petition in parliament -- Perspectives: the continuity of the discourse -- Appendices: the German originals -- 5. Institutionalising and administrating social exclusion: the discourse about Austrian authorities' refusals of residence permits for aliens -- Locating the discourse within the fields of political action -- The Austrian foreigner policy', the statistics on the population and naturalisations and the legal setting -- Official notifications as a genre -- The administrative practice of the municipal authorities from a linguistic and argumentation analytical perspective -- Public critique as political control -- Appendices --6. Discourse analysis, deliberative democracy and anti-racism: the critical and controlling potential of linguistics for anti-discrimination policy and politics -- A deliberative-democratic model of anti-discrimination -- The contribution of critical discourse analysis to the study of antisemitism, racism and anti-racism.

Library Special Collection

The Roger Griffin ComFas Collection

ISBN

0415231493

0415231507

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	General collection	305.8/009436 REI		General Stacks	-

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