Brexit as a Social and Political Crisis: Discourses in Media and Politics

ISBN-13: 9780367764111 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 112 str.

Franco Zappettini; Michal Krzyżanowski

Opis

Through a focus on media and political discourses both before and after the UK 2016 EU Referendum, this volume provides a set of comprehensive, empirically based analyses of Brexit as a social and political crisis.

Spis treści

Introduction - The critical juncture of Brexit in media & political discourses: from national-populist imaginary to cross-national social and political crisis  1. Splendid isolation again? Brexit and the role of the press and online media in re-narrating the European discourse  2. The Brexit referendum: how trade and immigration in the discourses of the official campaigns have legitimised a toxic (inter)national logic  3. ‘Out is out and that’s it the people have spoken’: uses of vox pops in UK TV news coverage of the Brexit referendum  4. Populism at work: the language of the Brexiteers and the European Union  5. ‘Crisis’ as a discursive strategy in Brexit referendum campaigns  6. Brexit and the imaginary of ‘crisis’: a discourse-conceptual analysis of European news media