Populist Discourse: Critical Approaches to Contemporary Politics

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