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Exploring populist styles of political discourse in Twitter
World Englishes ( IF 1.154 ) Pub Date : 2020-05-14 , DOI: 10.1111/weng.12496
Ruth Breeze 1
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In public controversy after the Brexit referendum, social media played a prominent role. In particular, veteran populist anti‐EU campaigner Nigel Farage used Twitter as a powerful weapon to further his cause. This paper compares a corpus of Farage's tweets in 2017–2018 with those by four other prominent British politicians (May, Johnson, Corbyn and Starmer). Quantitative corpus linguistics techniques are combined with qualitative analysis to examine how Farage creates a distinctive discursive style that is both down‐to‐earth and emotive. Various markers of register and affect are identified, and three core aspects of Farage's populist appeal to ‘the people’ are outlined, including the projection of negative emotions, especially anger/violence; the use of questions to provoke reactions; and the deployment of colloquial expressions and catchphrases to resonate with popular audiences and claim the status of ‘common sense’.

中文翻译:

在Twitter中探索民粹主义政治话语风格

在英国脱欧公投后的公众争议中,社交媒体扮演了重要角色。特别是,资深民粹主义反欧盟运动家奈杰尔·法拉格(Nigel Farage)将推特用作推动其事业发展​​的有力武器。本文将Farage在2017-2018年的推文与其他四位英国著名政客(May,Johnson,Corbyn和Starmer)的推文进行了比较。定量语料库语言学技术与定性分析相结合,以检验《法拉奇》如何创造出一种既生动又富有情感的独特话语风格。确定了各种标志和情感的标志,并概述了Farage平民主义对“人民”的吸引力的三个核心方面,包括负面情绪的投射,尤其是愤怒/暴力;使用问题引起反应;
更新日期:2020-05-14
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