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“Everything Goes Against the German Here!” Self-Victimising Discourse in Comments on Migration-Related Posts on the Alternative für Deutschland Facebook Page

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Cyberhate in the Context of Migrations

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This chapter investigates user comments on migration-related posts on the Facebook page of the far-right German political party Alternative für Deutschland. The chapter demonstrates by way of a contextualised discourse analysis how a range of recurrent topoi of immigrants as burden, danger, exploitation and injustice and specific recurring features, including expressions of physical revulsion and sarcasm, combine to form a discourse of self-victimisation in the user comments. These findings are discussed in the light of a need for contextualised discourse analyses of hate speech beyond the use of derogatory terms that considers a range of recurrent features in combination.

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    Melani Schröter

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Schröter, M. (2022). “Everything Goes Against the German Here!” Self-Victimising Discourse in Comments on Migration-Related Posts on the Alternative für Deutschland Facebook Page. In: Monnier, A., Boursier, A., Seoane, A. (eds) Cyberhate in the Context of Migrations . Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92103-3_4

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