Anna-Maija Ylä-Mattila
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General description
Työskentelen Saksan kielen ja kulttuurin opintosuuntaan sijoittuvan väitöskirjan parissa apurahatutkijana. Olen kiinnostunut yhteiskunnallisista muutoksista ja kriiseistä kielen ja vallankäytön näkökulmasta ja näenkin soveltavan kielitieteen ja eri yhteiskunnallisten tieteiden yhteistyön potentiaalin.Ydinosaamiseeni lukeutuu saksan kielen ohella (kriittinen) diskurssintutkimus ja saksalainen äärioikeisto, josta olen tähänastisessa tutkimuksessani keskittynyt uusnatsisolu NSU:iin. Kandidaatintyössäni tutkin NSU:n representaatioita mediadiskurssissa ja maisterintutkielmassani (julkaistu 2018) tutkin NSU:n yhden päätekijän, Beate Zschäpen, yli 50-sivuisessa oikeudenkäyntilausunnossa rakentuvia identiteettejä. Väitöskirjassani laajennan fokusta myös ääri-islamistiseen terrorismiin ja tutkin uhriuden rakentumista yhteiskunnan eri keskusteluareenoilla.
Active JYU affiliations
- Department of Language and Communication Studies, Grant Researcher
- Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Doctoral Student
Previous, inactive or other affiliations
- Department of Language and Communication Studies (University of Jyväskylä), Grant Researcher, Ended
- Department of Language and Communication Studies (University of Jyväskylä), Grant Researcher (JYU funding), Ended
- Department of Language and Communication Studies (University of Jyväskylä), Grant Researcher, Ended
- Department of Language and Communication Studies (University of Jyväskylä), Grant Researcher, Ended
- Department of Language and Communication Studies (University of Jyväskylä), Grant Researcher, Ended
- Department of Language and Communication Studies (University of Jyväskylä), Doctoral Researcher, Ended
- Department of Language and Communication Studies (University of Jyväskylä), Grant Researcher, Ended
Research interests
Terrorism causes crises, that challenge also societal debates. In this article-based dissertation, I ask how victimhood is constructed in the German societal debate on extremist terrorism. This study focuses on debates on the far-right terrorist group National Socialist Underground (NSU) uncovered in 2011 and the ISIS attack at the Christmas market in Berliner Breitscheidplatz in 2016. Despite their ideological differences, these two terror cases caused similar societal debates on victims and their positions. This raises the question, of how victimhood is being produced and constructed through language use. This study is based on the linguistic approach of the world and phenomena being constructed through language use. In this dissertation, I ask how victimhood is discursively constructed and what these two different terrorism cases tell us about the phenomenon of victimhood in German societal debates. The data consists of parliamentary debate speeches, newspaper articles, and tweets. This discourse analytical study takes the data-driven approach and examines each dataset with different discourse analytical methods.
Fields of science
Personal keywords
Linguistics; applied linguistics; discourse studies; Germany; terrorism; extremism; society; crises
Keywords (YSO)
Projects as Principal investigator
- Dissertation: "Extremist terrorism and the construction of victimhood in German societal debate"
- Finnish Cultural Foundation
- Dissertation: "Extremist terrorism and construction of victimhood in German societal debate"
- Ellen and Artturi Nyyssönen Foundation
- Dissertation: "Extremist terrorism and construction of victimhood in German societal debate"
- Central Finland Regional Fund
- Dissertation: "Extremist terrorism and construction of victimhood in German societal debate"
- Emil Öhman Foundation
- Dissertation: "Victims of extremist terrorism and their relatives in German societal debate"
- Ellen and Artturi Nyyssönen Foundation
- Dissertation: "Extremist terrorism and the construction of victimhood in German societal debate"
- Emil Öhman Foundation
