The Discursive Ecology of Homophobia, livre ebook

The first book to examine the linguistic foundations of homophobic discourses

Through an analysis of the discourse practices of populist Far Right groups in France, Italy and Belgian Flanders, this book makes a ground-breaking contribution to our understanding of the ways in which homophobic discourse functions. It proposes an innovative heuristic for the conceiving of the interplay of language, context and culture: discourse ecology. The author brings linguistic theories, methods and ways of understanding and thinking about language to a study of the overt and covert homophobic discourses of three non-Anglophone populist movements, and grounds the interpretation of such practices in observable data. In doing so the book encourages us all to reconsider the power we give language in our activism and scholarship, as well as in our private lives.

Preface

Chapter 1. Hate and Language, Hate in Language: (Re)Considering Homophobic Discourse

Chapter 2. The Ecology of Homophobic Speech: Unraveling Discourse Practice   

Chapter 3. Les Hommen: ‘Muscled Resistance’ and Misogynistic Homophobia    

Chapter 4. Le Sentinelle in Piedi: Naturalizing (and Denying) Homophobia             

Chapter 5. Filip Dewinter: Pinkwashing, Populism, and Nativism 

Conclusion