Feindbildkommunikation. Polarisieren und Diskreditieren im politischen Diskurs

Heinz-Helmut Lüger

doi:10.18778/8142-633-6

Enemy’s Image Construction. Polarization and Depreciation in the Political Discourse

Heinz-Helmut Lüger

University of Koblenz and Landau

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Hassrede – ein multidimensionales Phänomen im interdisziplinären Vergleich

Pages: 65-87

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18778/8142-633-6.05

Keywords: Hassrede, Diskurs, Öffentlichkeit, Massenmedien, Mediendiskurse

Published: 17 February 2020

Categories: Foreign language studies, Linguistics, Open Access

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The enemy’s image can be socially constructed on the level of single persons, political parties or whole country. This distortion propaganda targets the enemy’s portrayal to emphatically de-cline the stances and the positions of a given political opponent. Linguistically, the enemy’s image construction can be formed in various ways depending on the emotional engagement of the speaker: These forms varies from just negative evaluations to profound contempt and hate speech. This article examines this phenomenon in some historical documents concerning the outbreak of the World War 1.

Heinz-Helmut Lüger, University of Koblenz and Landau

Professur für Romanistik an der Universität Koblenz-Landau (bis 2011). Forschungsschwerpunkte: Text- und Gesprächslinguistik, Phraseologie, Frankreichforschung.

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Lüger, Heinz-Helmut. 2020. “Enemy’s Image Construction. Polarization and Depreciation in the Political Discourse”. In Hassrede – Ein Multidimensionales Phänomen Im interdisziplinären Vergleich, edited by Jacek Makowski, 65-87. Poland: Lodz University Press. https://doi.org/10.18778/8142-633-6.05.