Racist discourse in a German far-right blog: A corpus-driven approach using word embeddings

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Abstract

Newer forms of racism in the context of right-wing extremism are characterised by an apparent distancing from overt racist devaluations. In addition to or even beyond biological features, it is now cultural characteristics attributed to social groups which serve as grounds for practices of othering and social exclusion. This paper analyses racist discourse in the comment sections of the influential far-right blog pi-news.com where these practices can be observed in detail. With reference to discourse analytical approaches to racism and using corpus-linguistic, data-driven methods, especially word embeddings and collocations, it is shown how racism is linguistically and discursively expressed. Next to both overt and more implicit racist nominations and predications, the notion of Heimat (‘homeland’) is analysed; it is used to draw racist demarcations without relying on overtly racialising terms.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Seiten (von - bis)224-242
Seitenumfang20
Fachzeitschrift Discourse & society : an international journal for the study of discourse and communication in their social, political and cultural contexts
Jahrgang35(2023)
Ausgabenummer2
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 1 Okt. 2023
Peer-Review-StatusJa

Externe IDs

ORCID /0000-0002-0141-9327/work/145224221
Scopus 85174285195
Mendeley 4fc411ab-cf31-3e7c-b83d-b5b746f9a86b

Schlagworte

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Schlagwörter

  • racism, Comment sections, discourse analysis, far-right, corpus linguistics