Discourse and discrimination : rhetorics of racism and antisemitism Machine generated contents note: Preface xi 1 Race racism and discourse: an interdisciplinary historical and methodical overview The concepts of race and racism 2 How to explain racism 10 Four discourse analytical approaches to racism 19 2 The discourse historical analysis of the rhetoric of racism and antisemitism 31 A context sensitive discourse historical approach 31 Even black Africans: a short discourse historical analysis 85 3 The coding of a taboo: antisemitic everyday discourse in postwar Austria 91 The political and hostorical Austrian context and the Waldheim Affair 94 The discourse about the Waldheim Affair 99 A segment of the semi official written discourse 113 Everyday discourse: conversations on the street 116 4 Aliens and Foreigners: the political and media discourse about the Austria First Petition of Jorg Haider and the Austrian Freedom Party in 1992 and 1993 144 Some historical information about Austria 148 The Austria First Petition 151 The campaign for and against the petition 161 Some newspaper commentaries concerning the petition 170 The petition in parliament 186 Perspectives: the continuity of the discourse 194 Appendices: the German originals 200 5 Institutionalising and administrating social exclusion: the discourse about Austrian authorities refusals of residence permits for aliens 205 Locating the discourse within the fields of political action 206 The Austrian foreigner policy the statistics on the population and naturalisations and the legal setting 209 Official notifications as a genre 215 The administrative practice of the municipal authoritiesfrom a linguistic and argumentation analyticalperspective 222 Public critique as political control 232 Appendices 252 6 Discourse analysis deliberative democracy and anti racism: the critical and controlling potential of linguistics for anti discrimination policy and politics 263 A deliberative democratic model of anti discrimination 263 The contribution of critical discourse analysis to the study of antisemitism racism and anti racism 266 Bibliography 272 Index 291 Discourse and Discrimination is a study of how racism antisemitism and ethnicism are reflected in discourse. Reisigl and Wodak first survey four established discourse analysis approaches discussing the strengths and weaknesses of each and then provide their own model of critical discourse analysis. Using this model the authors present three case studies. While the focus of these studies is on racism in Austria the approach is relevant for the study of discrimination in any context. Drawing on a wide range of sources from political speeches and legal documents to newspaper articles television broadcasts and everyday conversations Reisigl and Wodak question why even today in a post World War II society racism and antisemitism are still virulent.