Benjamin De Cleen
List of John Benjamins publications for which Benjamin De Cleen plays a role.
Journal
ISSN 1569-2159 | E-ISSN 1569-9862
Title
Discourse Theory: Ways forward for theory development and research practice
Edited by Benjamin De Cleen, Jana Goyvaerts, Nico Carpentier, Jason Glynos, Yannis Stavrakakis and Ilija Tomanić Trivundža
Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 20:1 (2021) vi, 195 pp.
Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
2021 Beyond populism studies Discourse Theory: Ways forward for theory development and research practice, De Cleen, Benjamin, Jana Goyvaerts, Nico Carpentier, Jason Glynos, Yannis Stavrakakis and Ilija Tomanić Trivundža (eds.), pp. 178–195 | Article
‘Populism’ has become ever more ubiquitous in political analysis, to the extent that ‘populism studies’ appears on course to establishing itself as a field of research in its own right. This article warns about the dangers of such a development. Taking a discourse theoretical approach as our… read more
2021 Moving discourse theory forward: A five-track proposal for future research Discourse Theory: Ways forward for theory development and research practice, De Cleen, Benjamin, Jana Goyvaerts, Nico Carpentier, Jason Glynos, Yannis Stavrakakis and Ilija Tomanić Trivundža (eds.), pp. 22–46 | Article
This article assesses the current state of play of the poststructuralist and post-Marxist discourse theory associated with Laclau and Mouffe and the ‘Essex school’, and identifies ways forward at the level of theory development, research practice and critique. The article starts by disentangling… read more
2021 An introduction to the special issue on ‘Discourse Theory: Ways forward for theory development and research practice’: Ways forward for theory development and research practice’ Discourse Theory: Ways forward for theory development and research practice, De Cleen, Benjamin, Jana Goyvaerts, Nico Carpentier, Jason Glynos, Yannis Stavrakakis and Ilija Tomanić Trivundža (eds.), pp. 1–9 | Article
This article introduces the special issue of the Journal of Language and Politics on ‘Discourse Theory: Ways forward for theory development and research practice.’ In this introduction we discuss the aims and structure of this special issue focused on the development of the poststructuralist and… read more
2021 Politics as construction of the unthinkable Discourse Theory: Ways forward for theory development and research practice, De Cleen, Benjamin, Jana Goyvaerts, Nico Carpentier, Jason Glynos, Yannis Stavrakakis and Ilija Tomanić Trivundža (eds.), pp. 10–21 | Article
This article is the English translation of a text originally published by Ernesto Laclau in French in 1981 as part of the proceedings of the colloquium Materialités Discursives held in Nanterre on 24–26 April 1980. In this text, Ernesto Laclau reflects on the subject of hegemony as a… read more
2019 Chapter 1. The populist political logic and the analysis of the discursive construction of ‘the people’ and ‘the elite’ Imagining the Peoples of Europe: Populist discourses across the political spectrum, Zienkowski, Jan and Ruth Breeze (eds.), pp. 19–42 | Chapter
Aiming to provide some theoretical context to this edited volume on Imagining the Peoples of Europe, this chapter argues that a discourse-theoretical definition of populism as a political logic is the best basis for discursive analyses of populist politics. In identifying what makes populist… read more
2017 Wodak, Ruth (2015). The Politics of Fear. What Right-wing Populist Discourses Mean The micro-politics of sequential organization: Contributions from conversation analysis and ethnomethodology, Mondada, Lorenza and Sara Keel (eds.), pp. 137–140 | Review
2007 Bringing Discourse Theory into Media Studies: The applicability of Discourse Theoretical Analysis (DTA) for the Study of media practises and discourses Journal of Language and Politics 6:2, pp. 265–293 | Article
When Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe published an elaborate version of their discourse theory in Hegemony and Socialist Strategy (1985), they were met with fierce resistance by a unified front of traditional Marxists and anti-poststructuralists. The debates on post-Marxism dominated much of the… read more
Farmers as symbol of ‘the people’: Nationalism and populism in Vlaams Belang’s discourse about farmers Journal of Language and Politics: Online-First Articles | Article
Despite increased attention to the far right and environmental issues, little research has focused on the increasingly prominent attempts by populist radical right (PRR) parties to capitalize on farmers’ protests against climate and biodiversity policies across Europe. This article addresses… read more