In this comparative research project we study different instances of political populism as a "thin ideology" (Mudde/Kaltwasser) in its respective ideological proximity to right-wing discourses in Japan and Germany from a discourse-analytical perspective. In particular, applying the methods of corpus and computational linguistics and corpus-based critical discourse analysis, we analyze the long-term effects of (new-)right-wing discursive strategies and right-wing populist politics on everyday language and political discourse. Our research design takes into account various media and types of text corpora, including social media (Twitter), two daily newspapers per country, and the parliamentary minutes of both countries, to study the normalization of new-right and right-wing populist discursive fragments (i.e. racism/nativism, anti-feminism and historical revisionism) in different public spheres and over the period of one decade (2012-2022).
DFG Programme
Research Grants
International Connection
Japan, United Kingdom
