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Given the rise in far-right and populist rhetoric in Europe, particularly in light of the 2015 refugee crisis and the racist and xenophobic responses to it, this paper provides a multimodal analysis of the campaign slogans and posters of Slovenian political parties that gained parliamentary seats during the 2018 parliamentary elections that were, alongside focusing on issues pertaining to the Slovenian political landscape, heavily infused with concerns and potential solutions on how to tackle the challenges currently faced by Europe. The aim is to examine the linguistic and visual tools used by parties across the political spectrum, and to find out if the use of certain elements is characteristic of a determined political orientation. A brief outline of Slovenian party dynamics and the conditions that have contributed to them is followed by an analysis of the parties’ political campaigns. Using the tools of political discourse analysis, the first part is centred around parties’ choice of syntax and lexis in their political slogans, as well as the imagery on their posters, whereas the second is devoted to a linguistic analysis of how parties frame and address five key common issues in their political programmes: pensions, corruption, finance, healthcare and safety. Their stances and how these differ or coincide based on their place on the political spectrum are exemplified by short excerpts from the programmes.

The Combined Higher Education Plan (Gesamthochschulkonzept) in North Rhine-Westphalia (Nordrhein-Westfalen) in the 1960s and 1970s was an expansion of the classical university idea. From 1972 onwards, the socialliberal government in North Rhine-Westphalia founded five 'combined institutions of higher education' or Gesamthochschulen in Duisburg, Essen, Paderborn, Siegen and Wuppertal. These new institutions combined the characteristics of universities and polytechnics and were intended to act as 'centres of strength' for their regions and to determine anew the relationship between cities and higher education institutions. In line with contemporary trends in education planning, the initiators of the new concept combined higher education and socio-political goals and set themselves apart from the planning methods evident in the foundation of new universities in Bochum, Dortmund and Bielefeld in the 1960s. Signposted under the political slogans of 'equal opportunity' and 'democratization', the Gesamthochschulen were meant to be set up primarily in places that regional planers had previously identified as 'spaces without higher education institutions'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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