German Images of the Self and the Other

TRAMA

This book provides a detailed linguistic analysis of the nationalist discourses of the German Second Reich, which most effectively demonstrate the contrasting images of the German Self and its various Others, such as Jews, native Africans, gypsies and the enemy Other during the First World War.

SOMMARIO

Foreword Methodological Framework Self-identity, Otherness and Nationalism Racism in Discourse Anti-Semitism in Discourse Colonialism in Discourse Discourse in War-Time Conclusion

AUTORE

FELICITY RASH Professor of German Linguistics at Queen Mary, University of London, UK. Her research interests lie chiefly within the field of Historical Discourse Analysis, and she has published on the political propaganda of Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Paul Rohrbach and Adolf Hitler. Her most recent monograph is The Language of Violence, a close linguistics analysis of Hitler's Mein Kampf with its chief emphasis upon the use of metaphors.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780230282650
• Dimensioni: 216 x 140 mm
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Illustration Notes: XII, 222 p.
• Pagine Arabe: 222
• Pagine Romane: xii