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”Herrar i sitt eget hus” : en diskuranalys av SD-Kuriren inför EU-valet 2014

Höwitz, Alexander LU (2014) MRSK30 20141
Human Rights Studies
Abstract
The purpose of this thesis is to critically examine the anti-EU party the Swedish demo-crats own political medium SD-Kuriren and its articles regarding the European Parliament elections of 2014. The study aims to analyse how the use of language in SD-Kurirens articles forms the basis for how nationalist and populist discourses are shaped and expressed. The theoretical framework applied in this thesis is Benedict Anderson's theories about "the imagined community" and John C Breuillys theories of nationalism as a political claim to power together with Jens Rydgrens theories of radical right-wing pop-ulism. The method chosen to answer how nationalist and populist discourses are ex-pressed in SD-Kuriren is Norman Fairclough’s Critical... (More)
The purpose of this thesis is to critically examine the anti-EU party the Swedish demo-crats own political medium SD-Kuriren and its articles regarding the European Parliament elections of 2014. The study aims to analyse how the use of language in SD-Kurirens articles forms the basis for how nationalist and populist discourses are shaped and expressed. The theoretical framework applied in this thesis is Benedict Anderson's theories about "the imagined community" and John C Breuillys theories of nationalism as a political claim to power together with Jens Rydgrens theories of radical right-wing pop-ulism. The method chosen to answer how nationalist and populist discourses are ex-pressed in SD-Kuriren is Norman Fairclough’s Critical Discourse Analysis, a method which examines the relationship between text, discourse practice in which text is pro-duced and consumed within and the social practice.
The study reveals how nationalist and populist discourses in SD-Kuriren mainly express itself through an imagined perception of the "ordinary and reasonable people". The lin-guistic representation of the people permeates the entire EU-criticism in SD-Kuriren and forms the basis for how nationalist discourse primarily expresses itself as a nationalist and political claim to power. (Less)
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author
Höwitz, Alexander LU
supervisor
organization
course
MRSK30 20141
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
Critical Discourse Analysis, right-wing populism, weden Democrats, nationalism, European Union, mänskliga rättigheter, human rights
language
Swedish
id
4523200
date added to LUP
2014-08-20 15:03:54
date last changed
2014-09-04 08:27:40
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  abstract     = {{The purpose of this thesis is to critically examine the anti-EU party the Swedish demo-crats own political medium SD-Kuriren and its articles regarding the European Parliament elections of 2014. The study aims to analyse how the use of language in SD-Kurirens articles forms the basis for how nationalist and populist discourses are shaped and expressed. The theoretical framework applied in this thesis is Benedict Anderson's theories about "the imagined community" and John C Breuillys theories of nationalism as a political claim to power together with Jens Rydgrens theories of radical right-wing pop-ulism. The method chosen to answer how nationalist and populist discourses are ex-pressed in SD-Kuriren is Norman Fairclough’s Critical Discourse Analysis, a method which examines the relationship between text, discourse practice in which text is pro-duced and consumed within and the social practice.
The study reveals how nationalist and populist discourses in SD-Kuriren mainly express itself through an imagined perception of the "ordinary and reasonable people". The lin-guistic representation of the people permeates the entire EU-criticism in SD-Kuriren and forms the basis for how nationalist discourse primarily expresses itself as a nationalist and political claim to power.}},
  author       = {{Höwitz, Alexander}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{”Herrar i sitt eget hus” : en diskuranalys av SD-Kuriren inför EU-valet 2014}},
  year         = {{2014}},
}