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1 online resource |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Intro; Note on the Front Cover Image; Preface; Contents; 1: Introduction: Towards a Discourse History of National Socialism; Discourse and Discourse History; 'Unquiet Voices' and Exile; Overview; A Note on Terms and Typographical Conventions; Bibliography; 2: The Emergence of National Socialist Discourse; 1914: The Great War as a Discourse Event; 1914: "The German Language Will Rule the World"; 1918 and the Legacy of Defeat; The "Language of National Socialism": Key Features; "That Is the Language of Fascism!": Oppositional Voices; Conclusion; Bibliography |
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3: The National Socialist Discourse "Community": Norms and ContradictionsTerror and 'Gleichschaltung'; Radicalization of the Public Discourse: The New Normal; The 'Co-ordinated' Public Voice of Women; Attempted Regulation of the Media; The Imperfect Control of the Print Media; Rewriting the Lexicon I: Covert Instructions; Rewriting the Lexicon II: The Example of the 'Duden' Dictionary; The German Language and the 'Volksgeist'; The Demise of Linguistic Purism; 'Antiqua' Replaces 'Fraktur': A Seismographic Shock; Mother-Tongue Fascism; Bibliography |
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4: Voices from Abroad: Thomas Mann, Karl Kraus, Ernst Bloch, Bertolt Brecht, Irmgard Keun, Heinz PaechterKarl Kraus; Ernst Bloch; Bertolt Brecht; Irmgard Keun; Heinz Paechter; Conclusion; Bibliography; 5: Voices at Home (I): Private Notes for Posterity; Hitler's Style as Character: Mechtilde Lichnowsky; The Inventorists; Eugen Seidel and Ingeborg Seidel-Slotty; The Diarists; Victor Klemperer; Theodor Haecker; Erich Kästner; Ursula von Kardorff; Anna Haag; Thea Sternheim; Conclusion; Bibliography; 6: Voices at Home (II): From Resistance to 'Resistenz' in the Printed Word |
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Resistance: The Language of Insurrection'Resistenz': The Coded Discourse of Inner Exile; Literary Responses; Literary-Philosophical Periodicals; Three Language Commentators; Dolf Sternberger; Gerhard Storz; Wilhelm E. Süskind; Conclusion; Bibliography; 7: Voices at Home (III): The Case of the Frankfurter Zeitung; Situation; Self-understanding; Reporting the Race Laws; The Language Discourse of the Frankfurter Zeitung: An Overview; The Great Orator Hitler; Critiquing the Language of Groups; Critiquing Unknown and Unnamed Speakers; On the Use of Proverbs; The Word as a Window on Worldview |
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Critiquing Style: Syntax Meets PoliticsThe Demise of the 'Fremdwort' Issue and 'German Script'; The Unspeakable Objection to Reifferscheidt (1939/1940); The "Law of Silence" (1940); Conclusion: The Habitus of Inner Exile and the Origins of the "Lexicon of the 'Unmensch'" (1945ff.); Bibliography; 8: Aftermath: Entnazifizierung; Denazification as a Discourse Event; Denazification "of the Language"; Lingua Tertii Imperii (1947); "The Lexicon of the 'Unmensch'" (1945-1948); Bibliography; 9: Legacy: Vergangenheitsbewältigung; Vergangenheitsbewältigung I (1949-1989) |
| Summary |
'In this wide-ranging, profoundly serious, yet accessibly written study W J Dodd traces the origins, realities, and legacies of Nazism in German discourse history, focusing impressively on the 'unquiet voices' of the time and their contribution to a modern understanding of the politics of language use. This important book deserves to find many readers not only in the English-speaking world, but also in Germany!' --Jürgen Schiewe, Institute of German Philology, University of Greifswald, Germany In this discourse history, W J Dodd analyses the 'unquiet voices' of opponents whose contemporary critiques of Nazism, from positions of territorial and inner exile, focused on the 'language of Nazism'. Individual chapters review 'precursor' discourses; Nazi public discourse from 1933 to 1945; the testimonies of 'unquiet voices' abroad, and in private and published texts in the 'Reich'; attempts to 'denazify the language' (1945-49), and the legacies of the Nazi past in a retrospective discourse of 'coming to terms' with the Nazi past. In the period from 1945, the book focuses on contestations of 'tainted language' and instrumentalizations of the Nazi past, and the persistence of linguistic taboos in contemporary German usage. Accessibly written, with English translations provided throughout, this book will provide an invaluable resource for scholars of discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, and German history and culture; as well as readers with a general interest in language and politics. W J Dodd is Emeritus Professor of Modern German Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK. His research in this area has been recognized by a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship and a Senior Fellowship of the Alfried Krupp Institute for Advanced Study, Germany.-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
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German language -- Political aspects -- Germany.
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National socialism -- Germany -- History.
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Nazis -- Language.
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Germany -- History -- 1933-1945.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. |
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German language -- Political aspects |
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National socialism |
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Nazis -- Language |
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Germany https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtCD3rcKcPDx6FHmjvrbd |
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1933-1945 |
| Genre/Form |
History
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| ISBN |
9783319746609 (electronic bk.) |
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331974660X (electronic bk.) |
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9783319746593 |
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