Beschreibung:
Through a focus on media and political discourses both before and after the UK 2016 EU Referendum, this volume provides a set of comprehensive, empirically based analyses of Brexit as a social and political crisis.
Introduction - The critical juncture of Brexit in media & political discourses: from national-populist imaginary to cross-national social and political crisis 1. Splendid isolation again? Brexit and the role of the press and online media in re-narrating the European discourse 2. The Brexit referendum: how trade and immigration in the discourses of the official campaigns have legitimised a toxic (inter)national logic 3. 'Out is out and that's it the people have spoken': uses of vox pops in UK TV news coverage of the Brexit referendum 4. Populism at work: the language of the Brexiteers and the European Union 5. 'Crisis' as a discursive strategy in Brexit referendum campaigns 6. Brexit and the imaginary of 'crisis': a discourse-conceptual analysis of European news media