Brexitspeak

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-1-108-74402-7
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 332 g

Were we talked into Brexit? And who is 'we'? It's impossible to do politics without words and a context to use them in. And it's impossible to make sense of the phenomenon of Brexit without understanding how language was used – and misused – in the historical context that produced the 2016 referendum result. This interdisciplinary book shows how the particular idea of 'the British people' was maintained through text and talk at different levels of society over the years following World War II, and mobilised by Brexit propagandists in a socially, economically and culturally divided polity. The author argues that we need the well-defined tools of linguistics and language philosophy, tied in with a political science framework, to understand a serious, modern concept of demagoguery. Written in an accessible manner, this book is essential reading for anyone who wants to probe the social, political and ideational contexts that generated Brexit.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chilton, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: populists, demagogues, language; 1. Identity; 2. We; 3. The people; 4. The British people; 5. Fear of foreigners; 6. Fear of foreigners mobilised; 7. How demagogues do it; Conclusion: brexitspeak, demagoguery, decline of democracy; Appendix.

Über Autor(innen)

Chilton, Paul
Paul Chilton is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Lancaster University, and currently an associate member of the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics at Oxford, and of the Applied Linguistics department at the University of Warwick. His notable publications include Security Metaphors (1996), Analysing Political Discourse (2004), and Language, Space and Mind (2019).