ABSTRACT

Historians of political discourse and language policy researchers should join forces to develop methods of textual analysis that help to integrate political and intellectual history. They could do so by focusing their analysis on interconnections between material realities, human physical action, practices and structures, as well as institutions and ideologies as discursive constructs. Such a version of soft constructivism underscoring the discursive nature of much of politics encourages historians to analyse past political discourses more systematically. Concepts such as nexus, historical body, mobility and discursive transfers borrowed from language research deepen our analytical understanding of the multi-level dynamics of policy-making, directing attention to links between various debates as well as to transnational transfers. Our empirical examples are derived from Swedish and Finnish constitutional debates in the last phase of the First World War, but similar research strategies are applicable to the analysis of political discourse in any context.

摘要

政治话语历史学家和语言政策研究人员应共同努力，开发有助于整合政治和思想史的文本分析方法。他们可以通过将分析重点放在物质现实，人类身体行为，实践和结构以及作为话语建构的机构和意识形态之间的相互联系来做到这一点。这种形式的软建构主义强调了许多政治的话语性质，这鼓励历史学家更加系统地分析过去的政治话语。概念，例如关系，历史体，流动性和话语转移从语言研究中借来的东西加深了我们对决策多层次动态的分析理解，将注意力集中在各种辩论之间的联系以及跨国转移上。我们的经验示例来自第一次世界大战最后阶段的瑞典和芬兰宪法辩论，但是类似的研究策略也适用于任何情况下的政治话语分析。