While attention has been given to understanding support for the far-right, there is a lack of focus on the way in which a threat of the far-right can be used for political ends. This paper addresses this using the UK Brexit debate as an illustration. The question therefore is: What is talk about the far-right used to do in discussions about Brexit? A discursive psychological approach addresses a sample of newspaper reports containing both ‘Far-Right’ and ‘Brexit’, from the first quarter of 2019 (n = 45). The analysis identifies a range of uses of talk about the far-right: (1) An opponent of Brexit is called a Nazi by pro-Brexit protesters, who are labelled far-right; (2) A lack of Brexit is presented as fuel for the far-right; (3) Remain supporters reject the idea that a lack of Brexit fuels the far-right; (4) A link with the far-right is rejected by a prominent Brexit supporter; and (5) Support for Brexit is again linked with the far-right. The far-right can be used as a strategic tool by opposing sides of the Brexit debate and – significantly – the supposed threat of the far-right can be used to placate far-right ideas, rather than to genuinely challenge them.

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英国脱欧辩论中极右翼威胁的修辞手法

虽然已经关注理解对极右翼的支持，但缺乏对极右翼威胁可用于政治目的的方式的关注。本文以英国脱欧辩论为例来解决这个问题。因此，问题是：在关于英国退欧的讨论中，极右翼在谈论什么？从 2019 年第一季度开始，一种话语心理学方法处理了一份包含“极右翼”和“英国退欧”的报纸报道样本（n = 45）。分析确定了有关极右翼的一系列言论：(1) 支持脱欧的抗议者将反对英国退欧的人称为纳粹，他们被贴上了极右翼的标签；(2) 缺乏脱欧被认为是极右翼的燃料；(3) 留欧派反对英国不脱欧助长极右翼的观点；(4) 与极右翼的联系被一位著名的脱欧支持者拒绝；(5) 对英国脱欧的支持再次与极右翼联系在一起。极右翼可以被英国退欧辩论的对立双方用作战略工具，而且——重要的是——极右翼的所谓威胁可以用来安抚极右翼的想法，而不是真正挑战它们。