List of tables

List of figures

Acknowledgements

Preface

`Race', racism and discourse: an interdisciplinary, historical and methodical overview

The concepts of `race' and `racism'

How to explain `racism'

Four discourse-analytical approaches to racism

The discourse-historical analysis of the rhetoric of racism and antisemitism

A context-sensitive, discourse-historical approach

`Even black Africans': a short discourse-historical analysis

The coding of a taboo: antisemitic everyday discourse in postwar Austria

The political and hostorical Austrian context and the `Waldheim Affair'

The discourse about the `Waldheim Affair'

A segment of the semi-official written discourse

Everyday discourse: conversations on the street

`Aliens' and `Foreigners': the political and media discourse about the Austria First Petition of Jorg Haider and the Austrian Freedom Party in 1992 and 1993

Some historical information about Austria

The Austria First Petition

The campaign for and against the petition

Some newspaper commentaries concerning the petition

The petition in parliament

Perspectives: the continuity of the discourse

Appendices: the German originals

Institutionalising and administrating social exclusion: the discourse about Austrian authorities' refusals of residence permits for aliens

Locating the discourse within the fields of political action

The Austrian `foreigner policy', the statistics on the population and naturalisations and the legal setting

Official notifications as a genre

The administrative practice of the municipal authorities from a linguistic and argumentation analytical perspective

Public critique as political control

Appendices

Discourse analysis, deliberative democracy and anti-racism: the critical and controlling potential of linguistics for antidiscrimination policy and politics

A deliberative-democratic model of anti-discrimination

The contribution of critical discourse analysis to the study of antisemitism, racism and anti-racism

Bibliography

Index