Semantische Kämpfe im Kampf um die Wähler. Zur diskursiven Konstruktion rechtspopulistischer Deutungsmuster
Semantic Battles in the Struggle for Voters. On Discursive Construction of Right-Wing Populist Patterns of Interpretation. On the Example of the Term nation/Volk used by Politicians in Election Speeches

Summary/Abstract: The struggle to establish certain patterns of interpretation in collective social knowledge is fought by means of semantics. Collective knowledge and at the same time certain meanings are linguistically constructed. In this respect, a “dispute about the matter” can be viewed as a “dispute about words”, that is, a semantic battle (Felder, 2006, S. 1). In this sense, power is exercised through semantics. The subject of this paper is the analysis of the right-wing patterns of interpretation in the political discourse of the 21st century, in fact polyphonic first-person narrators, an attempt at capturing its typical features and at reconstructing the right-wing political narrative on the nation/ Volk promoted by politicians during their meetings with voters.

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