Discourses of the Willkommenskultur (Welcoming culture) in Germany.
Given the rise of populist parties in Germany and the charge that multiculturalism is dead, the present research examines how everyday Germans formulate an account of cultural diversity and multiculturalism. We employ a critical discursive psychological analysis and focus particularly on the argumen...
| Published in: | Critical Discourse Studies Vol. 19; no. 1; pp. 93 - 117 |
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