Discourses of Borders and the Nation in the USA - Massimiliano Demata

Discourses of Borders and the Nation in the USA

A Discourse-Historical Analysis
Buch | Softcover
80 Seiten
2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-26369-4 (ISBN)
24,90 inkl. MwSt
This book introduces an innovative critical analysis of borders in contemporary political discourse, using examples from the Trump presidency and early stages of the Biden presidency to explore how borders are used as mechanisms of power to invoke different notions of national identity. //

The volume considers border as discursive construct, reflecting on their importance in the construction and expression of national identity across different forms of modern political discourse. Employing a framework informed by Ruth Wodak’s Discourse-Historical Approach, Demata examines how analyzing discourse from the Trump and Biden presidencies can reveal unique insights into how politicaians and other stakeholders use borders to recontextualize historical discourses of national identity and employ discursive strategies of inclusion and exclusion in promoting the idea of “the nation.” In adopting an approach which situates these discourses within their historical and socio-cultural contexts, the volume helps to further bridge the gap between different disciplines toward offering a multi-faceted understanding of notions of borders and national identity in contemporary political language. //

This book will be of interest to students and scholars in discourse analysis, language and power, language and politics, political science, and border studies.

Massimiliano Demata is Associate Professor of English at the University of Turin. He was a Fulbright scholar in Yale (1999) and Indiana University (2014) and has held Visiting Professorships at Saarland University (2020), Sciences Po Lyon (2021), and OTH Regensburg (2022). He is the co-editor of the Journal of Language and Discrimination and has published on populist discourse, Trump’s rhetoric, metaphors of the nation and social media discourse.

Table of contents

Introduction

Chapter 1 Borders, Nations and Security in the Age of Populism

Theoretical framework and methodology: the Discourse-Historical Approach

Borders and the Nation: Discourses of Inclusion and Exclusion

From bordered to borderless – and back. Borders, populism and the politics of security (and insecurity)

Chapter 2 The Trump Wall. The Discourse and the Aesthetics of Exclusion

The border wall: security and the nation

The Beautiful Wall. Borders and the Discourse of Real Estate

Branding Trump and the Trump Wall

Chapter 3 The Progressive Rhetoric of Borders

Democrats and "open borders"

From nation separation to family separation. Borders and the strength of the "nation of immigrants"

The modern (and effective) border

Conclusions

References

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Routledge Focus on Applied Linguistics
Zusatzinfo 5 Halftones, black and white; 5 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 138 x 216 mm
Gewicht 453 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Europäische / Internationale Politik
ISBN-10 1-032-26369-5 / 1032263695
ISBN-13 978-1-032-26369-4 / 9781032263694
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