We are delighted to announce that Mohamed Salhi successfully defended his PhD
thesis "" on September 2, 2024.
As a doctoral researcher and DAAD fellow at our chair, Salhi conducted innovative research examining the discursive and linguistic composition of far right populist parties' crisis discourse. From a critical linguistics perspective, this research project examined the process of producing 'crisis' in discourse and connected (constructed) realities to patterned linguistic features, contending that far right populist parties produce and narrate crisis to function as their own raison d'锚tre. With a developed form of Discourse-Historical Approach, the array of findings has been incredibly wide and offered detailed insights on the strategic and manipulative functions of patterned linguistic choices.
His dissertation makes a significant contribution by reconceptualizing the relationship between crisis and populism as one of co-constitution, supported by meticulous analysis of linguistic choices, and not limited to, lexico-semantic fields, sentence structures, modality, rhetorical devices, and stylistics, and on the discursive practices related to the representation of social actors, phenomena, ideologies, and realities.
We congratulate Mohamed Salhi on this outstanding achievement and wish him continued success in his future endeavors.
