Brexitspeak - Paul Chilton

Brexitspeak

Demagoguery and the Decline of Democracy

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Buch | Hardcover
230 Seiten
2024
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-84081-1 (ISBN)
62,30 inkl. MwSt
This critical investigation explores Brexit in the context of the nationalist populist wave in Europe, arguing that manipulative rhetoric was a key factor in the 2016 referendum result. It probes Brexiter propaganda through the lens of linguistics and cognitive science, showing how ethnocentric attitudes and emotions were mobilised.
Were we talked into Brexit? And who is 'we'? It's impossible to do politics without words and a context to use them in. And it's impossible to make sense of the phenomenon of Brexit without understanding how language was used – and misused – in the historical context that produced the 2016 referendum result. This interdisciplinary book shows how the particular idea of 'the British people' was maintained through text and talk at different levels of society over the years following World War II, and mobilised by Brexit propagandists in a socially, economically and culturally divided polity. The author argues that we need the well-defined tools of linguistics and language philosophy, tied in with a political science framework, to understand a serious, modern concept of demagoguery. Written in an accessible manner, this book is essential reading for anyone who wants to probe the social, political and ideational contexts that generated Brexit.

Paul Chilton is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Lancaster University, and currently an associate member of the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics at Oxford, and of the Applied Linguistics department at the University of Warwick. His notable publications include Security Metaphors (1996), Analysing Political Discourse (2004), and Language, Space and Mind (2019).

Introduction: populists, demagogues, language; 1. Identity; 2. We; 3. The people; 4. The British people; 5. Fear of foreigners; 6. Fear of foreigners mobilised; 7. How demagogues do it; Conclusion: brexitspeak, demagoguery, decline of democracy; Appendix.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 31.10.2024
Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-108-84081-7 / 1108840817
ISBN-13 978-1-108-84081-1 / 9781108840811
Zustand Neuware
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