In what ways is Holocaust Memorial Day commemorated in Britain? In order to make sense of Britain and its Holocaust cultures, this book analyses data and discourses from multiple sites: fifteen years of TV and radio programmes broadcast 'to mark' Holocaust Memorial Day; the national Commemoration Ceremony in the four years it has been broadcast on British television, both as a whole as well as rhetorical analysis of specific speakers; participant observation of three Holocaust Memorial Day Trust workshops; interviews with participants and organisers of all these workshops; and an embodied and emplaced rhetorical ethnography of a later national Commemoration Ceremony. Commemorative events play a subtle role in the garnering of public consensus and are tied to collective identity, politics and power in complex and mutually informed ways. Across 10 chapters, Richardson adopts a discourse analytic approach, and focuses on the rhetorical, normative and affective dimensions of Holocaust commemoration, exploring these issues in close detail.
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'Richardson's book offers a highly nuanced three-dimensional picture of Holocaust Memorial Day in Britain, that not only brings into relief the imbrication of rationality and emotion in official practices of collective memory of the Holocaust, but also admirably advances our theorization of how and why official commemorative practices like those of HMD interpellate us, encouraging us to act.'Professor Tommaso MilaniEdwin Erle Sparks Professor of Applied Linguistics & Jewish Studies, Pennsylvania State University, USA
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Newcastle upon Tyne
Großbritannien
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Produkt-Hinweis
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Höhe: 212 mm
Breite: 148 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-0364-1889-2 (9781036418892)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
John E Richardson is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Liverpool. His research interests include critical discourse studies, rhetoric and argumentation, British fascism and commemorative discourse. The author of over eighty publications, his most recent books include: The politics and rhetoric of collective remembering (2025, co-edited with Tommaso Milani), the Routledge Handbook of Critical Discourse Studies (2018, co-edited with John Flowerdew) and British Fascism: A Discourse-Historic Analysis (2017). He is Editor of the international journal Critical Discourse Studies and co-editor of the book series Advances in Critical Discourse Studies.
