Populist Discourse: Critical Approaches to Contemporary Politics

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Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List Figures List of Tables List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Unravelling populist discourse Populism, a difficult concept to define Populism as a global phenomenon Types of populism The aims and contents of this edited volume References Part I Populism, politics and communication Chapter 1 The politics of authenticity in populist discourse: Rhetorical analysis of a parliamentary speech by Podemos Introduction The populist alternative to representative democracy The authenticity policy The emotional rhetoric of populism Populism as a rhetorical metaphor Methodology Results Conclusion Note References Chapter 2 The rise of populist parties in Italy: Techno-populism between neo-liberalism and direct democracy Introduction Do we need a definition? Neo-liberal discourse, emergent populism and depoliticisation Old and new populism: the emergence of techno-populism Notes References Chapter 3 Rewriting the news: The amphibious relationship between populist Podemos and print media in Spain Introduction: the journalist/politician hybrid Visibility: in league with the media Authenticity: at war with the media Efficacy? Conclusion Notes References Chapter 4 Populism and the media factor: A comparative perspective on the Portuguese presidential candidates Introduction Populism in democratic systems Methodology and objectives First stage of the analysis: non-partisan presidents and potentially populist candidates Second stage of the analysis: mediated populism in the Portuguese 2011 and 2016 presidential elections Concluding remarks Notes References Chapter 5 Populist discourse in the 21st century: The definition of otherness on Twitter in the cases of Spain, Bolivia and Venezuela Populism in Spain, Bolivia and Venezuela Methodology and objectives Venezuela Bolivia Spain Shared strategies and frames Conclusion Notes References Part II A corpus-based discourse analysis of populism Chapter 6 Us vs. them: Polarization and populist discourses in the online electoral campaign in Spain Introduction Twitter as a subject of study Methodology Results and discussion Conclusion Notes References Chapter 7 Imagining the people in UKIP and Labour Introduction Material and method Results Discussion Acknowledgements Note References Chapter 8 For the many, not the few: A transitivity analysis of Labour’s 2017 manifes to as a driving force for promoting a populist Britain Introduction Theoretical background Data and method Results and discussion Conclusion Notes References Chapter 9 Little old UK voting Brexit and some Austrian friends: A corpus-driven analysis of the 2016 UK right-wing tabloid discourse Introduction Methodology Results Discussion Some conclusions Notes References Appendices Chapter 10 Disability in the populist press: An investigation of British tabloids Introduction The institutional background Framing disability in news discourse Populism and tabloids in the UK The Dis_UK corpus Analysis and findings Conclusion Notes References Chapter 11 Speculations about the future: Populism and climate change in news discourse Introduction Method The populist climate change corpus design Speculations about the future Affect Evidentiality and populist discourse Conclusions References Part III Rhetoric, critical discourse analysis and populism Chapter 12 Populist metaphorical utterances Introduction The role of metaphor in EU populist discourse Conclusion Notes References Chapter 13 Populismus and aestheticisation in Nazi rhetoric Introduction The aesthetic-propaganda of the Nazi programme Fundamentals of aestheticisation: Michaud, Welsch and Benjamin The Nazi worldview: the Greco-Roman world and paganism as new aesthetic proposals The German political discourse of Volksgemeinschaft [People’s Community] as a Nazi term The ideology of the community as the official doctrine of the Nazi State: ad hoc legal instruments and a license for barbarism Conclusions Notes References Chapter 14 Donald Trump is a Conqueror: How the cognitive analysis of Trump’s discourse reveals his worldview Introduction Theoretical framework Cognitive analysis of Trump’s political discourse Conclusion Notes References Chapter 15 Left-wing populist discourses in the Greek press Introduction Greece’s left-wing populism Frames, metaphor and discourse Corpus description I Avgi’s left-wing populist frames Metaphors in LWP discourse Conclusion Notes References Chapter 16 New politics and the voice of the people: A study of populist language in Spanish political discourse: the case of Podemos Introduction Theoretical framework. What is populist discourse? Emerging political parties in Spain after the “Spanish Revolution”. The case of Podemos Methodology and corpus The speech of Podemos’ leaders at the Vistalegre II congress Conclusions Notes References Chapter 17 Metaphors portraying right-wing politician Geert Wilders in Dutch political cartoons Introduction Geert Wilders Visual and multimodal metaphor in cartoons: a brief introduction Corpus and method of analysis Case studies: findings Concluding remarks Acknowledgements Notes References Index