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Humour, ridicule and the de-legitimization of the working class in Swedish Reality Television
- Source: Journal of Language and Politics, Volume 15, Issue 3, Jan 2016, p. 303 - 320
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- 05 Aug 2016
Abstract
Drawing on tools from Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis this paper analyses the editing techniques in a Swedish docu-soap showing that humour is used to ridicule the working-class participants, representing them as slow, inflexible, undynamic and unstylish. The paper places this within broader discursive shifts in Sweden where the rise of neoliberalism requires a dismantling of the welfare state, legitimized partly though establishing the lower social economic groups as morally flawed and themselves responsible for their increasingly disadvantaged situation as social inequalities increase.
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