The Discursive Ecology of Homophobia

Download or read book The Discursive Ecology of Homophobia written by Eric Louis Russell and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2019-05-09 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an analysis of the discourse practices of populist Far Right groups in France, Italy and Belgian Flanders, this book makes a ground-breaking contribution to our understanding of the ways in which homophobic discourse functions. It proposes an innovative heuristic for the conceiving of the interplay of language, context and culture: discourse ecology. The author brings linguistic theories, methods and ways of understanding and thinking about language to a study of the overt and covert homophobic discourses of three non-Anglophone populist movements, and grounds the interpretation of such practices in observable data. In doing so the book encourages us all to reconsider the power we give language in our activism and scholarship, as well as in our private lives.