Overview
- Explores different manifestations of populism in a range of national and international contexts
- Integrates linguistic and ideological analysis of populism as a phenomenon in contemporary politics
- Analyses aspects of populist discourse including notions of ‘the people’, the role of the charismatic leader, and manipulation of medium (especially television)
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Keywords
- Political discourse
- Nationalism
- left-wing populism
- new populism
- telepopulism
- political psychology
- Election manifestos
- Critical Discourse Analysis
- Conceptual Metaphor Theory
- Speech Act Theory
- Narrative Theory
- semantic analysis
- rhetoric
- Donald Trump
- Bernie Sanders
- Hugo Chávez
- Vladimir Putin
- Winston Peters
- Scottish Independence Referendum
- Barack Obama
- discourse analysis
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Reviews
“Encompassing different populist frameworks and data, this volume is valuable both in relating some of the significant findings to previous studies on populism and in providing new insight to the key notions of populist discourse. … the volume is certainly of value for researchers and scholars who are interested in populist discourse.” (Shuangshuang Lu, Journal of Language and Politics, Vol. 19 (4), 2020)
“This new volume collects together exciting analyses of the populist construction of the people, from New Zealand to Scotland, and Russia to North and South America. Recommended reading for anyone who is interested in how populist discourse works.” (Lasse Thomassen, Queen Mary, University of London, UK)Editors and Affiliations
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Populist Discourse
Book Subtitle: International Perspectives
Editors: Marcia Macaulay
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97388-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-97387-6Published: 02 October 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07348-0Published: 14 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-97388-3Published: 21 September 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 220
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations
Topics: Discourse Analysis, Political Communication, Comparative Politics, Sociolinguistics, Corpus Linguistics