Abstract
This chapter revisits research on a discursive shift during a political debate over demands for ‘punitive’ laws against migrants deemed ‘unwilling to integrate’. The original study found that the term became normalized in Austrian media through that debate. Interested in mediatized politics, the study focused on the argumentative structure of Resolution 3237/6, which sparked the debate, and the representation of migrants in related reporting. The revised study addresses this narrow empirical focus on a short-term discursive shift in one social field, adding corpora of parliamentary debates, court rulings, and legislation over 20 years. It finds prior usage of the term ‘unwillingness to integrate’, complicating the account of its normalization. It also extends argumentation analysis to the media, showing that normalization did not apply to all arguments equally.
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FWF-funded project P27153, The discursive construction of Austrian identity/ies 2015: A longitudinal perspective, began on January 1, 2015 and concluded on June 30, 2018.
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Rheindorf, M. (2019). Case Study 2: Normalization of Populist Terms in Political Discourse and Beyond: The ‘Unwillingness to Integrate’. In: Revisiting the Toolbox of Discourse Studies. Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19369-0_8
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