Overview
Presents an original study of study of National Socialism, discourse, and contemporary German approaches to political discourse analysis
Offers a detailed picture of Nazism and language
Brings this vital field of knowledge to the attention of a new Anglophone readership
Provides translations of German terms, passages and texts
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Political linguistics
- Historical linguistics
- Nazism
- World War II
- Anti-Fascism
- Discourse History
- National Socialism
- political discourse analysis
- National Socialist Discourse
- German linguistics
- Nationhood
- Third Reich
- Nazi language
- political language criticism
- 'pragmatized’ semantics
- discourse analysis
- german politics
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Reviews
“Jargon-free and accessibly written, with translations provided throughout, a careful glossary of terms, and a targeted bibliography following each chapter, it strikes just the right balance between comprehensive overview and penetrating digest, and will appeal as much to an interested non-specialist reader as a specialist. … Dodd provides the perfect amount to encourage further independent research and reading.” (Kirstin Gwyer, Modern Language Review, Vol. 114 (3), July, 2019)
“Dodd has written an important book. It should be on any reading list of key works on German history and thought over the last two centuries.” (Joachim Whaley, Journal of European studies, Vol. 48 (3-4), November, 2018) “In this wide-ranging, profoundly serious, yet accessibly written study W J Dodd traces the origins, realities, and legacies of Nazism in German discourse history, focusing impressively on the ‘unquiet voices’ of the time and their contribution to a modern understanding of the politics of language use. This important book deserves to find many readers not only in the English-speaking world, but also in Germany!” (Jürgen Schiewe, University of Greifswald, Germany)
“The central focus of Dodd’s account is the complex nexus formed by the discourse practices of National Socialism and the commentaries and counter-discourses of intellectuals and writers engaging in different ways with the (linguistic) brutality of the Nazi regime through public and private dissent. The originality and power of his argument, however, lies in his meticulous tracing both of the antecedents of National Socialist language and of its legacy and its continuing relevance in the present day. Dodd gives us an exemplary demonstration of the German tradition of Sprachkritik: this erudite study is grounded in serious scholarship but the argument is articulated in a lucid and accessible style. These strands of political language use, and critiques of them from many different perspectives, are then skilfully knitted together into a compelling and authoritative narrative.” (Patrick Stevenson, University of Southampton, UK)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
UK. His research in this area has been recognized by a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship
and a Senior Fellowship of the Alfried Krupp Institute for Advanced Study, Germany.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: National Socialism and German Discourse
Book Subtitle: Unquiet Voices
Authors: W J Dodd
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74660-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-74659-3Published: 23 April 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09047-0Published: 12 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-74660-9Published: 12 April 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 352
Number of Illustrations: 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Discourse Analysis, Germanic Languages, History of World War II and the Holocaust, German Politics, Sociolinguistics