Subversive Semantics in Political and Cultural Discourse : : The Production of Popular Knowledge / / ed. by Jörn Dosch, Gesa Mackenthun.

The large-scale use of semantic transfer and inversion as rhetorical tactics is particularly prevalent in right-wing discourses and populist »alternative knowledge« production. The contributors to this volume analyze processes of re-semanticizing received meanings, effectually re-coding those meanin...

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Place / Publishing House:Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Edition Politik ; 130
Physical Description:1 online resource (258 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Conspiracy Theories as Populist Counter-Narratives
  • Populism, Populist Democracy, and the Shifting of Meanings
  • Legitimizing Colonial Rule in the Twenty-First Century
  • The Origins of Replacement Narratives and the Resemanticization of Feminism in Two Novels of the Far Right
  • Indignants of the World, Unite?
  • Right-Wing Extremism and Ecology
  • Planters of Doom and Playful Gardeners
  • Contested Nationhood in the United States of America
  • Contributors