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Far-right articulations of the natural environment : an introduction / Bernhard Forchtner -- The trajectory of far-right populism : a discourse-analytical perspective / Ruth Wodak -- Environmental communication research : origins, development and new directions / Anders Hansen -- "Protecting our green and pleasant land" : UKIP, the BNP and a history of green ideology on Britain's far right / Emily Turner-Graham -- From black to green : analysing Le Front National's 'patriotic ecology' / Salomi Boukala and Eirini Tountasaki -- Environmental politics on the Italian far right : not a party issue / Giorgia Bulli -- Sheep in wolves clothing : the Danish far right and 'wild nature' / Christoffer Kølvraa -- Far-right and climate change denial : denouncing environmental challenges via anti-establishment rhetoric, marketing of doubts, industrial/breadwinner masculinities enactments and ethno-nationalism / Martin Hultman, Anna Björk and Tamya Viinikka -- The allure of exploding bats : the Finns Party's populist environmental communication and the media / Niko Hataka and Matti Välimäki -- The ecological component of the ideology and legislative activity of the Freedom Party of Austria / Kristian Voss -- The environmental communication of Jobbik : between strategy and ideology / Anna Kyriazi -- Is brown the new green? : the environmental discourse of the Czech far right / Zbynek Tarant -- Beyond the 'German forest' : environmental communication by the far right in Germany / Bernhard Forchtner and Özgür Özvatan -- The environment as an emerging discourse in Polish far-right politics / Samuel Bennett and Cezary Kwiatkowski -- In the heartland of climate scepticism : a hyperlink network analysis of German climate sceptics and the US right wing / Jonas Kaiser -- Alt-right ecology : ecofascism and far-right environmentalism in the United States / Blair Taylor -- The rhetorical landscapes of the 'alt right' and the patriot movements : settler entitlement to native land / Kyle Boggs -- Looking back, looking forward : a preliminary conclusion on the far right and its natural environment(s) / Bernhard Forchtner.

'This book opens up new horizons in the sociological study of memory. It is not only a theoretical adventure, trying to push a critical approach to memory studies, going beyond Habermas, but also an empirical study full of insights into the workings and transformations of the collective memories we live with and the claims to know the lessons from the past which arise from them. It is required reading for everybody looking to make sense of the dynamics of everyday discourse and political discourse in present-day societies about their pasts.' - Klaus Eder, Humboldt-University of Berlin, Germany 'It has almost become cliché to claim to have 'learnt from history' in commemorative rhetoric. But what does this mean? Which lessons are to be taken? And how do these lessons vary when referring to Our or Their past wrongdoing? In this erudite and provocative book, Forchtner outlines and analyses four rhetorics of learning - each of which, whilst presenting history as a teacher, are characterised by different narrative grammars. Lessons from the Past? is vital reading for anyone interested in Memory Studies and the politics of commemoration.' - John E. Richardson, Loughborough University, UK This book reconstructs how claims to know 'the lessons' from past wrongdoings are made useful in the present. These claims are powerful tools in contemporary debates over who we are, who we want to be and what we should do. Drawing on a wide range of spoken and written texts from Austria, Denmark, Germany and the United States, this book proposes an abstract framework through which such claims can be understood. It does so by conceptualising four rhetorics of learning and how each of them links memories of past wrongdoings to opposition to present and future wrongdoings. Drawing extensively on narrative theory, Lessons from the Past? reconstructs how links between past, present and future can be narrativised, thus helping to understand the subjectivities and feelings that these stories facilitate. The book closes by considering if and how such rhetorics might live up to their promise to know 'the lessons' and to enable learning, offering a revised theory of collective learning processes

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Introducing the language-politics nexus -- Part I Theoretical approaches to language and politics -- 1 Rhetoric as a civic art from antiquity to the beginning of modernity -- 2 From Karl Marx to Antonio Gramsci and Louis Althusser -- 3 Jürgen Habermas: between democratic deliberation and deliberative democracy -- 4 Michel Foucault: discourse, power/knowledge and the modern subject -- 5 Jacques Lacan: negotiating the psychosocial in and beyond language -- 6 The discourse theory of Ernesto Laclau -- 7 Pierre Bourdieu: ally or foe of discourse analysis? -- 8 Conceptual history: the history of basic concepts -- 9 Critical Discourse Studies: a critical approach to the study of language and communication -- Part II Methodological approaches to language and politics -- 10 Content analysis -- 11 Corpus analysis -- 12 Cognitive Linguistic Critical Discourse Studies: connecting language and image -- 13 Competition metaphors and ideology: life as a race -- 14 Legitimation and multimodality -- 15 Narrative analysis -- 16 Rhetorical analysis -- 17 Understanding political issues through argumentation analysis -- 18 Conversation analysis and the study of language and politics -- 19 Politics beyond words: ethnography of political institutions -- Part III Genres of political action -- 20 Parliamentary debates -- 21 Government communication -- 22 Press conferences -- 23 Policy-making: documents and laws -- 24 The semiotics of political commemoration -- 25 Mediatisation and political language -- 26 Performing politics: from the town hall to the inauguration -- 27 Genres of political communication in Web 2.0 -- 28 Music and sound as discourse and ideology: the case of the national anthem

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This article illuminates the far-right populist Alternative for Germany's (AfD) performances of delegitmisation vis-à-vis EUrope and
legitmisation of itself/the nation by articulating two paradigmatic, transnational crises: climate change and COVID-19. It asks: 'how
does the far-right AfD perform these two crises to legitimise itself and delegitimize others?' and 'what similarities/differences
exist between the performance of these two crises in terms of topics, narrative (genres) and their linguistic realisations?'. To
explore AfD's de/legitimisation efforts, written texts and videos by AfD representatives through which they intervene in
discourses about climate change in 2019 and COVID-19 in 2020 are analysed. The analysis identifies a two-dimensional process of
narrative delegitimization, vilifying national and backgrounding EUropean 'others', and illustrates that a
comic-romantic emplotment of ethno-national rebirth pre-configures the largely same topics and topoi. In so
doing, the article, furthermore, takes another step towards the conceptual integration of narrative (genre) into the
Discourse-Historical Approach in Critical Discourse Studies.

Autonomy and independence have become crucial elements of end-of-life decision making. Opinions on the latter are, however, strongly contested in public discourses. This contribution analyses arguments in favour of and against a Dutch civil society initiative which promotes the extension of the legislation on euthanasia. The authors investigate Dutch newspapers associated with three groups: religious, liberal and humanist perspectives, and do so by utilising quantitative and qualitative elements from a discourse-analytical perspective, raising the following questions: Which stances can be identified? How do different parties position themselves with regard to a 'completed life' and a 'good death'? To what extent do these positions create demarcations between 'us' and 'them'? The authors show that the debate developed along the lines of three key topoi: the topos of autonomy, the topos of human worth and the topos of embeddedness. The authors thereby identify how the different discursive positions define different visions of dying as 'legitimate' and as a proper end to a completed life. ; Version of record