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Tenorio, Encarnación Hidalgo; Benítez-Castro, Miguel-Ángel; Cesare, Francesca De

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“…I use critical discourse analysis to contextualise close readings of select passages of Jelinek’s play with recent social sciences and humanities research on global populisms to highlight what literary language and the dramatic form can contribute to understanding populism. With this, the article responds to recent research pointing out that “we need to delve deeper into instances of allegedly populist language and discourse in a wide range of contexts” ( Hidalgo-Tenorio et al , 2019 , 5). Since prior research has focused primarily on “ideological dimensions” of populisms, the task remains to “consider the more formal or structural dynamics of the debate about populism” ( Goyvaerts & De Cleen, 2020 ) that contribute to the profound reshaping of societal communication through populisms and allow their ideologies to have a broad impact.…”

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“…Since prior research has focused primarily on “ideological dimensions” of populisms, the task remains to “consider the more formal or structural dynamics of the debate about populism” ( Goyvaerts & De Cleen, 2020 ) that contribute to the profound reshaping of societal communication through populisms and allow their ideologies to have a broad impact. The article is based on the hypothesis that reading dramatic texts which negotiate populisms, such as Jelinek’s play, can contribute to understanding the “spectacularisation of politics” ( Hidalgo-Tenorio et al , 2019 , 3) in populism because these texts comprise a reflection on the precise linkages between the staging and the contribution of the audience that render a production a spectacle.…”

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Staging enmity: reading populist productions of shame with Jelinek’s On the Royal Road

Prade-Weiss¹

2023

Open Res Europe

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Background: Populism is often perceived as a shamelessly loud segment of political discourse. However, Jelinek’s play On the Royal Road, written on the occasion of Trump’s 2016 election as US president, suggests that populism leads to societal silencing. Jelinek’s text expounds that when a society’s public sphere is marked by ubiquitous enmity against an imagined “we”, grounded in antagonism, then the possibility of speaking to one another disappears, because speaking to one another is based on the willingness to give one’s counterpart space and listen to them. In a public discourse that stages enmity, the counterpart vanishes. Therefore, populism, loud as it is, leads to the silencing of whole communities insofar as they are left with nothing in common but enmity. Method: Critical discourse analysis is used to contextualise close readings of select passages of Jelinek’s play with recent social sciences and humanities research on global populisms to highlight what literary language and the dramatic form can contribute to understanding populism. Results: The silencing populisms entail is fed, in large part, by a dynamics linking the interpersonal emotion of shame to its discursive exploitation in shamelessness and shaming: populist voices transgress rules of democratic debate in the public sphere to elicit outrage by mainstream politics, media, and civil society, which often retort populist shamelessness by shaming populist actors. The audience excitement populist leaders and supporters generate is an important factor in normalizing the emotional, moralizing populist polarization of “us” versus “them” that undermines differentiated discussion and a dispute of arguments. Conclusion: While media and research commonly suggest that with the populist reduction of politics to a spectacle, citizens become a passive audience, the article expounds that audiences play a key role in the production of populist enmity. This insight offers an alley to counteract populism.

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Staging enmity: reading populist productions of shame with Jelinek’s On the Royal Road

Prade-Weiss¹

2023

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Trump’s populist discourse and affective politics, or on how to move ‘the People’ through emotion

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Benítez-Castro

2021

Globalisation, Societies and Education

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A Corpus-Based CDA of Populist Politicians’ Strategies and Public Response on Twitter during the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Di Silvestro,

Venuti

2023

Lingue Culture Mediazioni - Languages Cultures Mediation (LCM Journal)

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In this paper we analyse how populist leaders in UK and Italy – namely Nigel Farage, Nicola Sturgeon, Giorgia Meloni, and Matteo Salvini – reacted to the first and second lockdowns on their Twitter accounts, communicating directly to their people. The analysis was carried out following a combined qualitative and quantitative approach to discourse. The qualitative analysis focused on comparing populist leaders’ rhetorical and semiotic choices, while the quantitative analysis observed the response by the community of common Twitter users. This work aims on the one hand at unveiling the strategic use of social media by populist leaders and on the other at investigating conflictual interactional dynamics, especially in times of crisis.

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Staging enmity: reading populist productions of shame with Jelinek’s On the Royal Road

Staging enmity: reading populist productions of shame with Jelinek’s On the Royal Road

Trump’s populist discourse and affective politics, or on how to move ‘the People’ through emotion

A Corpus-Based CDA of Populist Politicians’ Strategies and Public Response on Twitter during the COVID-19 Pandemic

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