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Language and culture wars: the far right’s struggle against gender-neutral language

Erdocia, Iker orcid logoORCID: 0000-0003-2459-1346 (2022) Language and culture wars: the far right’s struggle against gender-neutral language. Journal of Language and Politics . ISSN 1569-9862

Abstract
The far right has launched its own particular crusade against gender-neutral language (GNL). In this article, I examine how the parties Rassemblement National, in France, and Vox, in Spain, instrumentalise discursively their opposition to GNL as part of their overall political strategy of confronting social change. By using a culture war framework, I critically analyse the connections between the polarised representations of language and those of other fronts of cultural conflict that the far right directs against adversary groups. I show that both political parties have co-opted language into the culture wars they pursue on other fronts, albeit with significant differences. I argue that in addition to the idea of a single overall struggle based on moral differences and cultural cleavages, culture wars are also to be understood as interconnected fronts in different spheres of contention that the far right strategically exploits.
Metadata
Item Type:Article (Published)
Refereed:Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:Far right; gender-neutral language; culture war; language policy; France; Spain
Subjects:Humanities > French language
Humanities > Language
Humanities > Linguistics
Humanities > Spanish language
Humanities > Culture
Social Sciences > Communication
Social Sciences > Multiculturalism
Social Sciences > Political science
Social Sciences > Migration
Social Sciences > Gender
Social Sciences > Identity
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Science > School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies
Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing
Official URL:https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.21050.erd
Copyright Information:© 2022 The Authors.
Funders:This work was supported by the 2020-2021 publication fund of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Dublin City University
ID Code:27296
Deposited On:07 Jun 2022 10:19 by Iker Erdocia Iniguez . Last Modified 15 Mar 2023 14:59
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