The politics of fear: The shameless normalization of far-right discourse

R Wodak - 2020 - torrossa.com
In 1964, Bob Dylan, the US-American musician, author and visual artist who was awarded
the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016, composed a famous song:'The times they are a …

Discourses and practices of the 'New Normal' Towards an interdisciplinary research agenda on crisis and the normalization of anti-and post‑democratic action

M Krzyżanowski, R Wodak, H Bradby… - Journal of Language …, 2023 - jbe-platform.com
This position paper argues for an interdisciplinary agenda relating crises to on-going
processes of normalization of anti-and post-democratic action. We call for exploring …

The far right, the mainstream and mainstreaming: Towards a heuristic framework

K Brown, A Mondon, A Winter - Journal of Political Ideologies, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The study of far-right parties and politics is one of the most high-profile research areas in
political science and related disciplines. Far-right parties have been the subject of vast …

The abnormalisation of social justice: The 'anti-woke culture war'discourse in the UK

B Cammaerts - Discourse & Society, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
In this article, the so-called 'anti-woke'culture war is deconstructed through the notions of
metapolitics in fascist discourses–linked to the Gramscian 'hegemonisation'and 'the war of …

Normalization and the discursive construction of “new” norms and “new” normality: Discourse in the paradoxes of populism and neoliberalism

M Krzyżanowski - Social Semiotics, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Highlighting a number of perspectives from critical social theory and research as well as
critical language and discourse studies, this paper explores conceptions of normalisation …

Ukrainian refugees in Polish press

N Zawadzka-Paluektau - Discourse & Communication, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
The paper examines the representations of Ukrainian refugees in Polish press at the
beginning of the 2022 Russian invasion. Using corpus linguistics methods (namely …

Shameless normalisation of impoliteness: Berlusconi's and Trump's press conferences

R Wodak, J Culpeper, E Semino - Discourse & Society, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper applies the notions of impoliteness and shameless normalisation to potentially
impolite behaviours produced by Donald Trump and Silvio Berlusconi in official press …

The normalization of far-right populism and nativist authoritarianism: Discursive practices in media, journalism and the wider public sphere/s

M Krzyżanowski, M Ekström - Discourse & Society, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
This article postulates broadening as well as deepening the agenda for critical research on
the role of discursive practices in media, journalism and the wider public sphere/s in …

'It's OK to be white': the discursive construction of victimhood,'anti-white racism'and calculated ambivalence in Australia

K Sengul - Critical Discourse Studies, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This paper critically examines the 'It's OK to be White'Senate motion made by Australian far-
right politician Pauline Hanson in 2018. Deliberately innocuous, the 'It's OK to be …

A populist turn?: News editorials and the recent discursive shift on immigration in Sweden

M Ekman, M Krzyżanowski - Nordicom Review, 2021 - sciendo.com
This article undertakes a critical discourse analysis of Swedish quality newspaper editorials
and their evolving framing of immigration since the 2015 peak of the recent European …