[Cadaad] New books from CADAAD Network colleagues

Wed May 21 12:19:51 UTC 2025

Dear colleagues,

I’m happy to share the first CADAAD circular listing new books from our network.  If you’d like to share details of your own publication and activity (monographs, edited volumes, special issues of journals), please send an email to sbennett at amu.edu.pl<mailto:sbennett at amu.edu.pl>.

Male Separatism: Discourse, Ideology, and Argumentation (John Benjamins, DAPSAC)
Jessica Aiston
https://benjamins.com/catalog/dapsac.104
Synopsis: This book offers a critical discourse analytical perspective on the phenomenon of men who voluntarily abstain from relationships with women. Based on a case study of the online Reddit community known as ‘Men Going Their Own Way’, the author engages in qualitative examination of the argumentative and discursive strategies used to justify and legitimise an antifeminist, male separatist ideology. Methodologically, the book draws on the discourse-historical approach and investigates how members of this online community represent themselves, relationships with women, and the broader gendered social order. It considers male separatism as part of the new antifeminist social media network known as the manosphere, as well as part of a broader legacy of backlash against feminism and women’s rights.
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Holocaust Memorial Day in Britain: Mass Mediation, Rhetoric, Interpellation (Cambridge Scholars Publishing)
John E Richardson
https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-0364-1889-2

Synopsis: 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 to Holocaust commemoration, exploring these issues in close detail.
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Hong Kong's Second Return to China - A Critical Discourse Study of the National Security Law and its Aftermath (Palgrave Macmillan)
Jennifer Eagleton
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-84587-1

Synopsis: This book is a cross-disciplinary study, incorporating political science, law, and sociolinguistics in its examination of Hong Kong’s National Security Law which has impacted many aspects of life in the city. Through a critical discourse analysis lens, it details the lead-up to the Law’s introduction in 2020, a textual analysis of the Law itself, the “selling” the Law to the public, the accompanying electoral changes, the effect on civil society, and the discourse of dissidents in exile. It ends with speculation on what the future will bring to the “One Country, Two Systems”.

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Myths and Sanctioned Ignorance in British Immigration Discourse: Towards a Linguistic Sociology of Absences (Oxford University Press)
Samuel Bennett
https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197747216.001.0001

Synopsis: Myths and Sanctioned Ignorance in British Immigration Discourse is about the myths that societies tell themselves, the partial stories with which they convince themselves and others that the UK is (and always has been) a ‘good’ country, in order to discursively legitimize racialized immigration policy. From a basis in critical discourse studies (CDS) and integrating postcolonial and decolonial theories, the book offers an analysis of different socio-historical contexts, spaces, and genres. The book moves backwards and forwards between past and the present to show how the myths the UK tells itself are stable across time and genre, deployed in different contexts, and historically rooted. Crucially, it reveals these myths as just that: myths—selective narratives of history that integrate existing (objectivated) phenomena into a cohesive story about the UK.

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Political Argumentation in Early America: Informal Fallacies in Selected Debates 1789 to 1800 (Palgrave Macmillan)
Juhani Rudanko and Paul Rickman
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-83335-9

Synopsis: The authors investigate the language used in four major political debates bearing on freedom of speech in early America. The first debate, in June 1789, was over whether to consider a bill of rights. The second, in July 1798, was over whether to enact a sedition act. The third concerned the enactment of the Logan Act of 1799. The fourth concerned political argumentation in two major newspapers in New York, bearing on the outcome of the presidential election of 1800. The authors identify, define, and illustrate several informal fallacies that shed light on the argumentation in the debates and on the evolution of the concept of freedom of speech at a formative stage of American political culture.

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The politics and rhetoric of collective remembering (Routledge)
John E Richardson & Tommaso M Milani (eds.)
https://www.routledge.com/The-Politics-and-Rhetoric-of-Collective-Remembering/Richardson-Milani/p/book/9781032827063

Synopsis: This book critically examines the ways that collective pasts are commemorated and contested in a wide variety of national locations, media and genres. Collective remembering is a dynamic process, through which narratives about the past, about ‘us’ and ‘them’ as well as beliefs, values and affective conditions contained in these stories, are produced and reproduced. This facilitates room for not only the creation of unity but also the potential for contestation and conflict, given that different interpretations of the past are often vehicles for opposing political interests. This book reflects the geographical breadth and empirical depth of the field of collective remembering. Foregrounding the idea that collective remembering always entails contestation, individual chapters explore remembrance discourse and its various genres – including murals, memorials, museums, newspaper reports, speeches, textbooks, tourist tours and the work of community activists – in countries as diverse as Australia, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Portugal, South Africa, the UK and the USA.

Kind regards,

Sam

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Dr Samuel Bennett
Assistant Professor Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan<https://anglistyka.amu.edu.pl/strona-glowna/struktura/zaklad-socjolingwistyki-i-studiow-nad-dyskursem/samuel-bennett>
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