Discourse and Discrimination: Rhetorics of Racism and Antisemitism

Discourse and Discriminationis a study of how racism, anti-semitism and ethnicism are reflected in discourse. Through the analysis of an impressive variety of documents, Reisigl and Wodak present detailed case studies of anti-semitism, institutional racism and political xenophobia in Austria. Chapters include: * "Race", Racism and Discourse * The linguistic and rhetorical analysis of racism and anti-semitism * Discourses of silence: antisemitic discourse in post-war Austria * Necessary measures against foreigners? The petition "Austria first 1993" * The Political Administration of Social Exclusion: A discourse analysis of Authorities' Refusals of residence permits for aliens. The book provides a survey of different discourse analysis approaches, analysing the strengths and weaknesses of each, and concludes with the authors' own model of Critical Discourse Analysis.

Ruth Wodak is Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Vienna, and Director of the Discourse, Politics, Identity Research Center at the Austrian Academy of Sciences.