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TY  - THES
AU  - Janßen, Hannah
TI  - Identitätsbildende Mechanismen der rechtspopulistischen Bewegung Les Identitaires in Frankreich : eine triangulativ-integrative Diskursanalyse
PB  - Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen
VL  - Dissertation
CY  - Aachen
M1  - RWTH-2025-08801
SP  - 3 Online-Ressourcen
PY  - 2024
N1  - Veröffentlicht auf dem Publikationsserver der RWTH Aachen University 2025
N1  - Dissertation, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, 2024
AB  - The dissertation addresses the question of how identity and difference interact in thinking and language, particularly against the backdrop of the Identitarian movement and its reconceptualization of identity in postmodern society. At its core is the question of how language, as a constitutive element of reality, determines identity and how identitary-forming mechanisms can be derived from it. The theoretical framework is guided by Foucault’s discourse concept: language and the practice of social action shape identity, while discourse itself depends on historical and present conditions of possibility. The Identitarian group in France is used as a target group to investigate which linguistic strategies, shifts in concepts, and practices of action generate and legitimize an identitarian worldview. The analysis spans from the lower level of word forms - especially verb usage, their semantic developments, and diachronic semantics - up to larger text segments and corpus analyses. The aim is to identify discourse-structural indicators at the word level as well as patterns in sentence structure and text coherence. The methodology of the study pursues a triangulated research design that combines historical discourse semantics, corpus-linguistic discourse analysis and sociopragmatic discourse analysis. A particular emphasis is placed on verbal syntax: verbs are regarded as central nodes of the discourse, with aspectuality and tense structures providing insight into perspective, action, and intentionality. Additionally, a mixed-methods program is used to implement a code co-occurrence analysis to reveal connections between codes in the discourse material. In the empirical part, the text corpus of the Identitarians (2016–2018) is examined, focusing on their media visibility (Twitter, linked texts) as well as changes in terms and reference strategies. The dissertation asks how spatial and temporal representations accompany identity processes and how narrative patterns reflect national or transnational shifts in identity. On this basis, political, cultural, and linguistic fields are analyzed: the role of populism discourses, metapolitics, the connection between identity, space, and time, and the role of violence, boundary-marking, and migration discourses. The text also outlines a detailed category matrix of verb semantics, encompassing biomechanical, sensory, cognitive, communicative, as well as time- and aspect-related verb classes. This categorization serves the systematic exploration of the discursive functions of verbs in identitary discourse, their semantic change, and their pragmatic usages. The dissertation’s chapter structure proceeds from theoretical grounding to methodology, corpus analysis, results presentation, concluding with a discourse analysis of identitary text segments in relation to time, space, identity, and political practice.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)11
DO  - DOI:10.18154/RWTH-2025-08801
UR  - https://publications.rwth-aachen.de/record/1020147
ER  -