Language, immigration, and identity

An analysis of the discourses of the Finns Party

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ID6084875
AuthorsMarika K Cri (0000-0002-9717-1775)
Year2020
Volume19
Issue2
Pages270-289
Publication date2020-03-13
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Language and Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1569-2159 • E-ISSN: 1569-9862
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/jlp.19044.cri
OpenAlexW2990079176
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited18

Populism has been on the rise in Europe, especially in the last decade. Finland is no exception, and a populist party ‘The Finns Party’ has gained momentum since the 2011 parliamentary election. The purpose of this paper is to examine the discourses of the Finns Party in their official releases on immigration and language in the 2015 parliamentary election. The socio-politically situated examination draws from Foucauldian Discourse Analysis, especially the concepts of biopower, biopolitics, racism, governmentality and subject position. In addition, language identity, language ideologies, and populism are used to discuss how linguistic identity and ideology are perceived and constructed in the data, especially in terms of discourses of inclusion and exclusion of ethnically Finnish but linguistically non-dominant groups, and immigrants

Aesthetics · Biopower · Critical discourse analysis · Governmentality · Identity (music · Ideology · Immigration · Political science · Politics · Populism · Sociology · Linguistic research and analysis · Multilingual Education and Policy · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Gender Studies · Law

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