Populism at work: the language of the Brexiteers and the European Union

Ruzza, Carlo; Pejovic, Milica

doi:10.1080/17405904.2019.1605300

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“…Both express Euro-scepticism of the EU establishment in its current form; however, the views of the Leave campaign are more critical than the views of the Remain campaign. Although Euro-scepticism is also found in the Brexit discourse in social media by Ruzza & Pejovic (2019), yet that scepticism had not only been substantiated by questioning the democratic credentials of the EU, it is however distinct in the findings of this study that Euro-scepticism has been shared between the two conflicting campaigns in the British media and the EU lacks support even to prospective Remain voters who expressed their views to 'reform' the EU.…”

Section: Discourses Of Euro-scepticismcontrasting

confidence: 51%

Discursive Representation of the EU in Brexit-related British Media

Alkhammash

2020

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Coverage of the Brexit referendum dominated UK media in the summer of 2016. Previous research has focused on the Leave-leaning press and the representations of politicians within that debate. Analysing the British media representation of the EU is paramount in understanding dominant, conflicting discourses regarding the decision of British voters in the period preceding the referendum. This study compares language use in conflicting discourses of Brexit in British media by adopting a corpus-based discourse analysis using the Brexit corpus in Sketch Engine. Drawing on two corpus methods, namely concordance analysis and collocation analysis of the lexis under study (i.e., the term 'EU'), results of the analysis show that in the Leave campaign, the EU is represented in a negative sense in that continuing to be a member of the EU is viewed as bringing certain economic danger to the future of the UK and as increasing the prospect of terrorist attacks. However, the EU is represented in the Remain campaign both positively and negatively. It is represented positively in that the British public is reminded that the UK shares similar values to those held by the EU and negatively in that the media are critical of the EU in its current form. The Remain campaign also dismantles narratives made by the Leave campaign detailing the benefits of exit to British sovereignty and economy. This article concludes with a discussion of the dominant discourses about the EU found in the British media.

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Section: Discourses Of Euro-scepticismcontrasting

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Discursive Representation of the EU in Brexit-related British Media

Alkhammash

2020

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“…A similar reading of Brexit from populist and public sphere perspectives is offered by Ruzza and Pejovic (2019) who analyze the cultural frames that most frequently characterised interpretations of Brexit in Facebook posts addressed to the EU Commission and the European Parliament immediately after the referendum. Likening this virtual context of production of discourses to a transnational arena of debate where mobilisation around Brexit arises similarly to social movement dynamics, Ruzza and Pejovic's analysis interprets Brexit as part of an emerging (pan-European) populist ideology that pits the 'elite' against 'the people'.…”

Section: Unpacking Discourses Of Brexit: Contributions In This Speciamentioning

confidence: 97%

“…The first emergent trajectory encompasses a large proportion of discourses driven by populist and nationalist ideologies. As we have shown, the Brexit debate was typically framed in antagonistic terms, whether through representations of 'us' and 'them', 'cosmopolitan' vs. 'rural', 'ordinary people' vs. the 'elite', 'Europe' vs. 'Britain' and so on (see contributions by Tolson, 2019;Ruzza & Pejovic, 2019). Of course, the resurgence of populist and nationalist discourses is not simply a Brexit-specific or a uniquely British phenomenon but a multi-faceted one that has wider European and worldwide dimensions (see for example Krzyżanowski, 2018;Krzyżanowski, Triandafyllidou, & Wodak, 2018;Wodak & Krzyżanowski, 2017).…”

Section: Tracing the Discursive Trajectories Of Brexit A Critical DImentioning

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The critical juncture of Brexit in media & political discourses: from national-populist imaginary to cross-national social and political crisis

Zappettini

Krzyżanowski

2019

Critical Discourse Studies

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“…More recent studies on the European public sphere have highlighted the temporal dimension of the debates: for a European public sphere to exist it is not only important to have the same issues debated in different contexts, but also "at the same time and under similar aspects of relevance" (Kanter, 2015: 87). This issue is particularly relevant when dealing with social media, as they are not limited by geographical boundaries, thus permitting frames to spread transnationally (Ruzza & Pejovic, 2019). One particularly relevant example is the rise of right-wing populist parties in Europe and the US, who adopted similar discursive shifts in different countries and massively used social media to spread populist messages (Wodak and Krzyżanowski, 2017).…”

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confidence: 99%

The use of social media in EU policy communication and implications for the emergence of a European public sphere

Pareschi¹,

Mollona²,

Barberio³

et al. 2020

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Cohesion Policy accounts for the European Union main investment budget and seeks to strengthen economic, social and territorial cohesion. While accomplishments in this field are constantly measured, European citizens are not always aware of policy’s impact and of the role the EU plays therein. This issue is relevant, as communication of social policy is central to the emergence of the European public sphere, an acknowledged condition to foster European integration.In this work we aim at advancing research on the European public sphere through an analysis of the social media communication of EU cohesion policy by ten LMAs. We build on a bottom-up construction of shared meaning structures through semi-automatic techniques of analysis and highlight three main results: first, ‘horizontal Europeanization’ takes place on social media; second, Europeanization occurs both as the spontaneous integration of shared discontent expressed by citizens, and by the institutionalization of top-down procedures of communication adopted by LMAs; Third, a cluster of topics articulated internationally and conveying a negative attitude towards the EU funding scheme suggests that, counter-intuitively, Euroskepticism seems to facilitate the building of a European public sphere.

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Populism at work: the language of the Brexiteers and the European Union

Cited by 77 publications

References 38 publications

Discursive Representation of the EU in Brexit-related British Media

Discursive Representation of the EU in Brexit-related British Media

The critical juncture of Brexit in media & political discourses: from national-populist imaginary to cross-national social and political crisis

The use of social media in EU policy communication and implications for the emergence of a European public sphere

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