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Between saying and not saying: explicit silence as ambiguation in user comments on Alternative fĂĽr Deutschland Facebook posts
This contribution focusses on forms and functions of explicit silence in user comments on the Facebook page of the New Right political party Alternative fĂĽr Deutschland and on the way in which they allow users to participate in the communication while withholding content. These explicit silences create vagueness and ambiguity which users exploit to at the same time insinuate, adhere to, and scandalise taboos
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80,000,000 hooligans. Discourses of resistance to racism and xenophobia in German punk lyrics 1991-1994
The late eighties and early nineties in Germany were not only marked by the fall of the Wall and German unification, but also by the dramatization of the political issue of asylum, resulting in outbreaks of xenophobic violence. In the context of the asylum debate of the early nineties, a number of punk bands produced songs between 1991 and 1994 which criticise the xenophobic climate created by the asylum debate and undermine an exculpatory official discourse about the violent attacks. The lyrics of these songs will be analysed as instances of counter-discourse emerging from a subcultural sphere that nurtures a critical distance towards hegemonic public and political discourse, arguing that Critical Discourse Analysis should pay more attention to defiance of hegemonic discourse
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Rationality and moderation: German chancellors' post-war rhetoric
Abstract This chapter will use examples from post-1945 German chancellors’ public speeches in parliament as well as televised addresses to the nation to explore how culture affects the rhetoric of political leaders. Historical experiences following the devastating Nazi
dictatorship led to a wariness of collectivism and of an emotionally charged public sphere. Political structures in post-war Germany entail a need for power sharing between the federal government and federal states as well as between coalition partners, leading to moderation of
controversy. Secularization and individualism further lead to a primacy of politics catering to, and a rhetoric addressing, interests rather than ideals. Historical experiences with disunity and the division into two German states between 1949 and 1990 necessitate a rhetoric that avoids recourse to metaphysical or grand narratives of the nation and instead emphasizes compromise and stakeholdership. These elements of German political culture will be traced in two central speeches by different chancellors over time: the 1950s (Konrad Adenauer), the 1970s (Willy Brandt), the 1990s (Helmut Kohl), and the 2010s (Angela Merkel) through a
qualitative, rhetorical, discourse analysis
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Sagen oder nicht sagen? Der Tabu-Vorwurf als strategische Ressource im öffentlichen Diskurs
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Freiheit und Vorfahrt fĂĽr Wirtschaft und BĂĽrger: Die Sprache der FDP im Wahlkampf 2005
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Bezüge auf die Adressierten als Handelnde in der öffentlichen politischen Rede
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Adressatenorientierung in der öffentlichen politischen Rede von Bundeskanzlern 1951-2001: Eine qualitativ-pragmatische Korpusanalyse
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