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Record Nr.

UNINA9911008423903321

Autore

Russell Eric Louis <1973->

Titolo

The Discursive Ecology of Homophobia : Unraveling Anti-LGBTQ Speech on the European Far Right / / Eric Louis Russell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Blue Ridge Summit, PA : , : Multilingual Matters, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

9781788923477

1788923472

9781788923460

1788923464

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (312 pages)

Collana

Encounters

Disciplina

306.76/6014

Soggetti

Hate speech - Europe

Homophobia - Europe

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1. Hate and Language, Hate in Language: (Re)Considering Homophobic Discourse -- 2. The Ecology of Homophobic Speech: Unraveling Discourse Practice -- 3. Les Hommen: ‘Muscled Resistance’ and Misogynistic Homophobia -- 4. Le Sentinelle in Piedi: Naturalizing and Denying Homophobia -- 5. Filip Dewinter: Pinkwashing, Populism and Nativism -- Conclusion -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Through an analysis of the discourse practices of populist Far Right groups in France, Italy and Belgian Flanders, this book makes a ground-breaking contribution to our understanding of the ways in which homophobic discourse functions. It proposes an innovative heuristic for the conceiving of the interplay of language, context and culture: discourse ecology. The author brings linguistic theories, methods and ways of understanding and thinking about language to a study of the overt and covert homophobic discourses of three non-Anglophone populist movements, and grounds the interpretation of such practices in observable data. In doing so the book encourages us all to reconsider the power we give language in our activism and



scholarship, as well as in our private lives.