Paul Chilton

Brexitspeak

Demagoguery and the Decline of Democracy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"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"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 304g
• ISBN-13: 9781108744027
• ISBN-10: 1108744028
• Artikelnr.: 70400027

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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.