Subversive Semantics in Political and Cultural Discourse The Production of Popular Knowledge

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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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Universität Rostock funder (funder)
Other Authors: Dosch, Jörn, editor (editor), Mackenthun, Gesa, editor
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag [2023]
Edition:1st ed
Series:Edition Politik Series
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009770697506719
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