Christian Baden
List of John Benjamins publications for which Christian Baden plays a role.
Article
2020 Who are ‘the people’? Uses of empty signifiers in propagandistic news discourse Journal of Language and Politics 19:4, pp. 666–690 | Article
As expressions without clear definition but with strong normative charging, empty signifiers play an important role in political discourse. Uniting diverse populations under a common banner and endowing political demands with self-evident legitimacy, they constitute a potent tool for rallying… read more