Analogien der "Vergangenheitsbewältigung"

This volume addresses the question of how Israel-related anti-Semitism is linguistically construed from the online comment area of the quality press. The book represents a corpus linguistic analysis of more than 6,000 readers’ comments from the websites of the left-liberal newspapers ‘Die Zeit’ and ‘The Guardian’. The author examines how readers draw analogies between contemporary Israel and Nazi Germany on ‘Die Zeit’s website, and how in the Guardian commenters compare Israel to colonial Britain. In addition to the question of how such analogies are expressed, he also analyses what communicative functions they potentially fulfil in their respective discourses. By revaluating historical scenarios that may hinder identification with the national in-group, collective relief can follow. These phenomena are to be seen against the backdrop of recognisable renationalisation tendencies (not only) in Great Britain and Germany that also occur within the milieu-specific discourses the book examines.