Political, public and media discourses from Indyref to Brexit : the divisive language of union / Fiona M. Douglas.
Douglas, Fiona M.
2021
JA85.2.G7
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Title Political, public and media discourses from Indyref to Brexit : the divisive language of union / Fiona M. Douglas.
Author Douglas, Fiona M.
ISBN 9783030673840 (electronic bk.)
3030673847 (electronic bk.)
3030673839
9783030673833
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67384-0
Imprint Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Language English
Description 1 online resource.
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-67384-0 doi
Call Number JA85.2.G7
Dewey Decimal Classification 320.01/4
Summary This book focuses on the language of two unions (the United Kingdom and the European Union), tracing the emergence of divisive discourses from indyref to Brexit. It explains the background to the creation of these unions and summarizes recent political events that have brought their future into question. It considers which identities (national, supranational, social, ethnic or racial) were invoked during the indyref and EU referendum campaigns, emphasising the crucial role played by language in maintaining these identities, in conceptualizing the nation, to do politics, and its power to unite or divide. Based on analysis of three specialist corpora totaling over 143 million words and comprising multiple text types (newspapers, speeches, Twitter posts, parliamentary debates, party political websites and campaign materials), it interrogates the language used by politicians, the media and the public, uncovering increasingly problematic, scaremongering, xenophobic and incendiary linguistic strategies used to divide us from them. Fiona M. Douglas is Lecturer in English Language in the School of English, University of Leeds, UK.
Note Includes index.
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Series Rhetoric, politics, and society series.
Available in Other Form Print version: 9783030673833
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1. Introduction
2. Contexts of Union
3. Acts of Identity and (Dis)Union
4. Language, Identity, and Politics
5. This Fractures Isle: indyref
6. Breaking with Europe
7. Brexit and Beyond.

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