The negotiation of the sayable in political discourses. An analysis of public debate in parliament, mass media, and civil society

政治话语中可说的谈判。

• 批准号: 517963220
• 负责人: Dr. Floris Biskamp
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Politikwissenschaft
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/517963220?language=en
• 关键词: negotiation; sayable; political; discourses.; analysis

The project examines how normative boundaries of the sayable have changed in political discourses of the German public sphere from 1980 to the present. The need for this research arises from the fact that two directly opposing diagnoses of crisis have been formulated in the political and scholarly debate of recent years. Some authors speak, especially in the context of the rise of right-wing populist parties, of a constant expansion of what can be said and of an increasing normalization of hate-speech, which is considered a threat to liberal democracy. Taking the opposite position, other authors criticize an ever further narrowing of the boundaries of the sayable: According to them, statements that had been part of the mainstream are now being marginalized as anti-democratic, which is itself said to pose a threat to democracy. Although these debates are being conducted with great urgency, there is a lack of systematic empirical long-term studies that could determine the extent to which the respective diagnoses are appropriate, what changes in sayability have occurred, and how they are to be evaluated in terms of quality of democracy – this is particularly true for the German case. To close this research gap, the proposed project undertakes such a long-term investigation based on the Discourse Historical Approach (DHA). The project will be pursued in three subprojects, each devoted to one public arena: Subproject I investigates the changes in the governmental-institutional arena using the example of debates in the German Bundestag from 1980 to the present. Subproject II explores the changes in sayability in the mass media arena by analyzing Sunday evening talk shows on German television from 1990 to the present. Subproject III aims at the sphere of civil society, which is examined using the example of the Katholikentag and the Kirchentag from 1980 to the present. All three subprojects first analyze the drawing of boundaries with regard to racism in the fields of migration and integration; second, they include explicit negotiations about freedom of speech and its boundaries; and third, they identify additional topics on which the negotiation of sayability is particularly conflictual in each arena. By examining three spheres that are particularly relevant for the formation of public opinion and political will and that are interlinked with each other, the project promises to be the first to provide a systematic empirical assessment of the long-term change in normative boundaries of sayability in the German public sphere.

该项目探讨如何规范的边界说已经改变了德国公共领域的政治话语从1980年到现在。之所以需要进行这项研究，是因为近年来在政治和学术辩论中，对危机的两种直接对立的诊断已经形成。一些作者谈到，特别是在右翼民粹主义政党崛起的背景下，可以说的话不断扩大，仇恨言论日益正常化，这被认为是对自由民主的威胁。持相反立场的其他作者批评说的边界越来越窄：根据他们的说法，曾经是主流的一部分的言论现在被边缘化为反民主的言论，这本身就是对民主的威胁。尽管这些辩论正在以极大的紧迫性进行，但缺乏系统的经验性长期研究，以确定各自的诊断在多大程度上是适当的，在可说性方面发生了什么变化，以及如何从民主的质量方面对其进行评估--德国的情况尤其如此。为了缩小这一研究差距，拟议的项目进行这样一个长期的调查的基础上的话语历史的方法（DHA）。该项目将分三个子项目进行，每个子项目专门针对一个公共竞技场：子项目I以1980年至今德国联邦议院的辩论为例，调查政府机构竞技场的变化。分项目II通过分析德国电视台从1990年至今的周日晚间脱口秀节目，探讨大众媒体竞技场中可说性的变化。分项目三针对民间社会领域，以1980年至今的Katholikentag和Kirchentag为例进行审查。所有三个分项目首先分析了在移民和融合领域对种族主义划定界限的问题;第二，它们包括关于言论自由及其界限的明确谈判;第三，它们确定了在每个竞技场中关于可表达性的谈判特别冲突的其他专题。通过研究三个领域，特别是有关的形成公众舆论和政治意愿，并相互关联，该项目有望成为第一个提供一个系统的经验评估的长期变化的规范边界的可说性在德国公共领域。