Politics and Populism Across Modes and Media

ISBN-13: 9783034337076 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 350 str.

Ruth Breeze; Ana María Fernández Vallejo

Opis

The advent of digital media has changed political communication. Populist movements are adept at using the affordances of new media.Digital media also make it easier than ever for the public to respond to politicians, or to launch their own initiatives.These changes are analysed across countries as diverse as Venezuela, USA, Pakistan and Romania.

Spis treści

Table of Contents

Introduction: Politics, populism, media

Ruth Breeze and Ana M. Fernández Vallejo

Section 1: Politicians across Modes and Media

Trumpian tweets and populist politics: A corpus-assisted discourse analytical study

Aditi Bhatia and Andrew S. Ross

Populism and the digital media: A necessarily symbiotic relationship? Insights from the case of Syriza

Giorgos Venizelos

Achieving results for the American people. A corpus-assisted CDA of the White House website under Trump's presidency

Antonella Napolitano

Talking about populists in Twitter: Politicians' linguistic behaviour in comments about populists in Germany and Austria

Miguel Ayerbe Linares

#AmericaFirst vs #primagliitaliani: A Corpus-Assisted CDA of Trump's and Salvini's Twitter Communications

Maria Cristina Aiezza

The populist contagion. The influence of populist discourses on the political communication of traditional parties in Romania.

Daniela Roventa-Frumusani and Adriana Stefanel

Populism and popularity in Imran Khan's 2018 election speeches

Saqlain Hassan

Section 2: People, Politics and Politicians across Modes and Media

The discursive construction of Trump's charisma on Twitter and Reddit

Aline Schmidt

"You are not one of us!": Online responses to the premier's populist discourse in Jordan

Muhammad A. Badarneh

"Happy to be insulted": Offensive language in online discussions of UK radical politics

Ruth Breeze

Politicizing collective identities: Online news commentaries in the Arab Spring

Nahla Nadeem

Social networks and the construction of political culture: Where are we looking from?

Víctor A. Meléndez

Notes on Contributors

O autorze

Ruth Breeze is Associate Professor of English at the University of Navarra, Spain, and PI of the GradUN Research Group in the Instituto Cultura y Sociedad. Her research focuses on discourse analysis, particularly legal, political and media discourse, as well as corpus linguistics and pragmatics.

Ana M. Fernández Vallejo is Associate Professor at the University of Navarra, Spain, where she teaches Spanish for Academic and Professional Communication. Her recent research centres on language and emotion in professional and political settings throughout digital media, and CSR discourse in digital media.