Bernhard Forchtner
List of John Benjamins publications for which Bernhard Forchtner plays a role.
Journal
ISSN 1569-2159 | E-ISSN 1569-9862
2022 De/legitimising EUrope through the performance of crises: The far-right Alternative for Germany on “climate hysteria” and “corona hysteria” (De)legitimising EUrope in times of crisis, Zappettini, Franco and Samuel Bennett (eds.), pp. 208–232 | Article
This article illuminates the far-right populist Alternative for Germany's (AfD) performances of delegitmisation vis-à-vis EUrope and legitmisation of itself/the nation by articulating two paradigmatic, transnational crises: climate change and COVID-19. It asks: ‘how does the far-right AfD… read more
2015 ‘Saying sorry’ in Turkey: The Dersim massacre of the 1930s in 2011 Journal of Language and Politics 14:2, pp. 233–257 | Article
Dominant self-complacent national narratives (not only) in Turkey have long silenced past wrongdoings. Among these, the massacre of thousands of Kurds in Dersim during the 1930s, being part of the wider suppression of the Kurdish minority until the present day, is a particularly significant example. read more
2013 Chapter 7. Legitimizing the Iraq War through the genre of political speeches: Rhetorics of judge-penitence in the narrative reconstruction of Denmark’s cooperation with Nazism Analyzing Genres in Political Communication: Theory and practice, Cap, Piotr and Urszula Okulska (eds.), pp. 239–265 | Article
In Albert Camus’ novel The Fall, the main character Jean-Baptiste Clamance introduces himself as a judge-penitent, following the motto “[t]he more I accuse myself, the more I have a right to judge you”. In this chapter, I operationalize such behavior in order to understand the strategy of… read more
2012 Critique and argumentation: On the relation between the discourse-historical approach and pragma-dialectics Journal of Language and Politics 11:1, pp. 31–50 | Article
At the core of critical discourse analysis lies its emancipatory agenda: arguing for social equality and against discrimination. In the case of the discourse-historical approach (DHA), this stance has been theoretically justified mainly through references to Habermas’ language-philosophy. At the… read more
2011 Review of Musolff (2010): Metaphor, Nation and the Holocaust. The Concept of the Body Politics Thematising Multilingualism in the Media, Kelly-Holmes, Helen and Tommaso M. Milani (eds.), pp. 615–619 | Review