The Discursive Ecology of Homophobia: Unraveling Anti-LGBTQ Speech on the European Far Right

Eric Louis Russell

Multilingual Matters, May 9, 2019 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 312 pages

Through an analysis of the discourse practices of populist Far Right groups in France, Italy and Belgian Flanders, this book makes a ground-breaking contribution to our understanding of the ways in which homophobic discourse functions. It proposes an innovative heuristic for the conceiving of the interplay of language, context and culture: discourse ecology. The author brings linguistic theories, methods and ways of understanding and thinking about language to a study of the overt and covert homophobic discourses of three non-Anglophone populist movements, and grounds the interpretation of such practices in observable data. In doing so the book encourages us all to reconsider the power we give language in our activism and scholarship, as well as in our private lives.

About the author

Eric Louis Russell is Associate Professor in the Department of French and Italian, and affiliated faculty in the Linguistics Program at the University of California, Davis, USA. His research interests include linguistic analysis of discourse and cultural praxes, focusing on sexualities/gender, particularly the forms and structures of masculinities, prejudices, and hegemonies.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Discursive Ecology of Homophobia: Unraveling Anti-LGBTQ Speech on the European Far Right
• Author: Eric Louis Russell
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters, 2019
• ISBN: 1788923472, 9781788923477
• Length: 312 pages
• Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General; Political Science / Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism; Political Science / Political Ideologies / Nationalism & Patriotism; Psychology / Human Sexuality; Social Science / General