par Zienkowski, Jan 
Référence 2nd International Conference on Sociolinguistics (Eötvös Loránd University Budapest)
Publication Non publié, 2018
Référence 2nd International Conference on Sociolinguistics (Eötvös Loránd University Budapest)
Publication Non publié, 2018
Communication à un colloque
| Résumé : | Racism has been at the center of numerous debates in Flanders. One of the most heated debates in recent years is without a doubt the debate over racism’s alleged relativity. In Flemish nationalist discourse, the notion that “racism is (a) relative (concept)” has become the standard line for responding to calls to more radical anti-racist and anti-discriminatory policies. At the same time, racism is more and more being made visible by victims of racist slurs and practices, mostly via online media. At times, these testimonies find their way to newspaper and television discourse. Here, I will focus on a debate surrounding a call to publish as many stories about racist experiences on Twitter as possible. These accounts of racism are meant to render racist experiences visible in a context marked by a commonly pursued politics of erasure that does not grant such accounts legitimacy and visibility in the public sphere. This discourse analysis is based on linguistic pragmatic, critical and poststructualist insights. It will examine how stories about racism are framed metadiscursively in the debate. I will link the way these narratives are being contextualized in highly situated discursive practices with a more abstract meso-level mode of analysis in order to analyze the ideological structure of a debate that spans multiple media and language games. The question if and to what extent racist eperiences are being integrated in explanatory discourses that challenge the rationality of denials and relativistions of racism is one of the main questions to be answered in this analysis. |
