The global rise in the number, size and complexity of migration flows has not only resulted in an unprecedented flurry of debates and negotiations about how to deal with it through economic, social, and military policies but also in a huge increase in racist and xenophobic language use and discriminatory discourse. The expression of aggression and hatred in (anti-)immigration debates and its relationship to racism and its pseudo-justification lie at the center of this volume.00Its seven main contributions provide exemplary analyses of European and US debates that instrumentalize anti-immigrant attitudes: on the one hand among far-right populists in Cyprus, in Serbian and Croatian nationalism, and in the Hungarian government?s attempts at legitimizing immigration exclusion, and on the other hand in discourses associated with US-president Trump and his followers, including racists? tactical denial of racism. Methodologically, all studies pursue corpus-based Critical Discourse Analysis, with foci on lexical, figurative, argumentative and discourse-historical patterns. Together, they show the convergence of populist polemic strategies.

• Language Aggression in Public Debates on Immigration
• Editorial page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Table of contents
• Introduction: Language aggression in public debates on immigration
  • References
• Thinking globally, acting locally
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Immigration discourse and the dialectics of threat
    • 2.1 Identity politics and creating an enemy
    • 2.2 Conceptual metaphors and linguistic salience
    • 2.3 Scenario and salience
  • 3. Social and historical context
    • 3.1 The Cyprus problem: ‘Tο Kυπριακό’
    • 3.2 The immigration phenomenon: ‘το μεταναστευτικό’
    • 3.3 ELAM, the Cypriot extreme-right party
  • 4. ELAM, their key words and key concepts
    • 4.1 The Self and the other in ELAM’s discourse
    • 4.2 Methodology
    • 4.3 Keywords and key concepts
  • 5. Immigration as invasion: ELAM’s linguistic and conceptual script
    • 5.1 Linguistic proximity and conceptual amalgam
    • 5.2 Migration as INVASION
    • 5.3 The ultimate goal: Cypriot genocide or population replacement
  • 6. Conclusion
  • References
• Conditional support for territorial migrations in Serbian national discourse
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Context
  • 3. ‘Us’ and ‘them’ in national discourses
  • 4. Methods
    • 4.1 Data and procedure
    • 4.2 Theoretical framework
  • 5. Analysis
    • 5.1 Asylum seekers live in no man’s land
    • 5.2 Asylum seekers are internal ethnic others
    • 5.3 Asylum seekers are benefactors of reversed hierarchies
  • 6. Summary of main findings and closing remarks
  • References
• In transit
  • 1. Introduction and background
  • 2. Methodology and theoretical framework
    • 2.1 Methodology
    • 2.2 Theoretical framework
  • 3. Results and discussion: Representation of social actors
    • 3.1 Naming strategies, determination, and functionalization
    • 3.2 (Moving) water metaphors
    • 3.3 Representing social actions: Non-agency and conditional agency
    • 3.4 Representing countries’ actions and views: Protecting one’s own interests versus competing to be the most humane country
    • 3.5 Visual presentation of social actors and social actions
      • 3.5.1 Photographs of migrants in groups
      • 3.5.2 Photographs of children (and their mothers or families), and photographs in which single individuals are in focus
      • 3.5.3 Photographs of politicians
      • 3.5.4 Photographs with no apparent/visible social actors
  • 4. Concluding remarks
  • References
  • Internet sources
  • RTS and HRT articles
• “We mustn’t fool ourselves”
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Brief overview of political context and refugee crisis
  • 3. Literature review
    • 3.1 Immigration discourses
    • 3.2 Discourses of right-wing populism
  • 4. Theoretical framework
  • 5. Methodology
  • 6. Qualitative results on discourses of fear
    • 6.1 Law and order
    • 6.2 Cultural and religious othering
  • 7. Political identity discourses
    • 7.1 Self-representation of RWP political identity: Appeal to the people
    • 7.2 Political other-representation of the EU and ‘liberals’
  • 8. Discussion and conclusion
  • References
• “A great and beautiful wall”
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Discourse-Historical approach and populism
  • 3. Data
    • 3.1 Theoretical framework
  • 4. Analysis and discussion
    • 4.1 Nomination and predication of social actors
    • 4.2 “But we need… to build a wall, we need to keep illegals out.” Argumentation in Trump’s discourse
  • 5. Borders, walls and nations
  • 6. Conclusions
  • References
• Xenophobic Trumpeters
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Theoretical framework
    • 2.1 Critical discourse analysis
    • 2.2 Corpus linguistics tools
  • 3. Research questions
  • 4. Methodology
    • 4.1 The corpus
    • 4.2 Frequency
    • 4.3 Concordance
    • 4.4 Collocation
    • 4.5 Collostruction
    • 4.6 Procedure
  • 5. Results and discussion
    • 5.1 Frequency
    • 5.2 KWIC analysis
    • 5.3 Metaphors
    • 5.4 Collocational data
    • 5.5 Collostructures
    • 5.6 Agency and semantics
  • 6. Conclusions
  • 7. Limitations and future research
  • References
• Donald Trump supporters and the denial of racism
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Color blind racism and the discourse of immigration
  • 3. Political debate online
  • 4. Methods
  • 5. Findings
    • 5.1 Weaponizing accusations of racism
    • 5.2 Strategies for responding to accusations of racism
  • 6. Conclusion
    • 6.1 Summary of findings
    • 6.2 A new or resurrected form of racial discourse?
  • References
• Contributors to this issue
• Subject index