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Political, Public and Media Discourses from Indyref to Brexit - The Divisive Language of Union (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
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Political, Public and Media Discourses from Indyref to Brexit - The Divisive Language of Union (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
Series: Rhetoric, Politics and Society
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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.
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