Dodd W J. National Socialism and German Discourse: Unquiet Voices

New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 9783319746593; ISBN13: 978-3319746593In this discourse history, W J Dodd analyses the ‘unquiet voices’ of opponents whose contemporary critiques of Nazism, from positions of territorial and inner exile, focused on the ‘language of Nazism’. Individual chapters review ‘precursor’ discourses; Nazi public discourse from 1933 to 1945; the testimonies of ‘unquiet voices’ abroad, and in private and published texts in the ‘Reich’; attempts to ‘denazify the language’ (1945-49), and the legacies of the Nazi past in a retrospective discourse of ‘coming to terms’ with the Nazi past. In the period from 1945, the book focuses on contestations of ‘tainted language’ and instrumentalizations of the Nazi past, and the persistence of linguistic taboos in contemporary German usage. Highly engaging, with English translations provided throughout, this book will provide an invaluable resource for scholars of discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, and German history and culture; as well as readers with a general interest in language and politics.Introduction: Towards a Discourse History of National Socialism
The Emergence of National Socialist Discourse
The National Socialist Discourse “Community”: Norms and Contradictions
Voices from Abroad: Thomas Mann, Karl Kraus, Ernst Bloch, Bertolt Brecht, Irmgard Keun, Heinz Paechter
Voices at Home (I): Private Notes for Posterity
Voices at Home (II): From Resistance to ‘Resistenz’ in the Printed Word
Voices at Home (III): The Case of the Frankfurter Zeitung
Aftermath: Entnazifizierung
Legacy: VergangenheitsbewältigungAppendix
Discourse-Relevant Expressions