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Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Part I Populism as an Essentially Contested Concept in Academic and Political Discourse -- 1 Introduction: Discursive Approaches to Populism Across Disciplines -- Populism: Approaches to a Complex Phenomenon -- Populism as an Ideology: The Ideational Approach -- Populism as Political Style and Repertoire -- Populism from a Poststructuralist Discourse Theoretical Perspective -- Political Discourse: Concepts, Methods, Approaches -- Critical Discourse Analysis and Discourse Linguistics -- Argumentation Analysis and Rhetoric -- Talk in Interaction -- Post-foundational Discourse Theory (PDT) -- Populist Discourses: Core Questions -- Populism and Nationalism -- Populism and Post-truth -- Populism and the Political Space -- References -- 2 When Populists Call Populists Populists: 'Populism' and 'Populist' as Political Keywords in German and British Political Discourse -- Introduction: 'Populism' as a Key Term in Political Discourse -- Theoretical Approach and Previous Research -- Methodology and Corpus -- The Semantic Prosody of the Nouns 'Populist' and 'Populism' in German and English -- 'This Is Pure Populism': Politicians' Use of the Terms 'Populism' and 'Populist' in the Corpus -- 'Populism' and 'Populist' Used by Journalists -- 'What You Call Populism, We Call Democracy': Metalinguistic Contestations of a Political Term -- Conclusions -- References -- Part II Populist and Nationalist Discourses: Links and Tensions -- 3 The Impossible Totality of Ukraine's "People": On the Populist Discourse of the Ukrainian Maidan -- Introduction -- Laclau's Theory of Populism -- The Impossible Totality of the Ukrainian Maidan -- Research Questions, Methodology, and Design -- "We Are the People" -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- References.

This book presents a new approach to comparative politico-linguistic discourse analysis. It takes a transdisciplinary stance and combines analytical tools from linguistic discourse analysis (keywords, metaphors, argumentation, genre) and political science (political culture, comparative politics, ideologies). It is comprehensive in its introduction of approaches from the German tradition of politico-linguistics. This tradition has not, thus far, been accessible to a non-German speaking readership and hence the volume adds insights into the mechanics of political discourse from a diverse set of viewpoints. The book analyses the modernisation discourses in social democratic parties in Britain and Germany between 1994 and 2003, a project that was named 'Third Way'. It demonstrates how political language and political culture are related and how politicians will adapt a global ideology to local political circumstances in order to convince the electorate. At the same time, the book presents new insights into the German political culture and the version of Third Way discourses in the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) under the leadership of Gerhard Schröder which have played a key role in shaping current political discourse in Germany. It concludes with a model for the study of political discourse which makes the work relevant to scholars in Social Sciences and beyond.

Intro -- Discourse and Political Culture -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication page -- Table of contents -- List of tables -- List of figures -- List of abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Comparative discourse research: Global and local discourse structures -- 1.2 The Case study: Discourses of the Third Way -- 1.3 Aims and Research Questions -- 2. Elements of Comparative Politico-Linguistic Discourse Analysis -- 2.1 From Politico-Linguistics to Comparative Politico-Linguistic Discourse Analysis: Theoretical origins -- 2.2 Discourse as texts in context, or Discourse Linguistics as Cultural Studies -- 2.3 The contexts of political discourses -- 2.3.1 The context of culture: Political institutions and political culture -- 2.3.2 Context and subject of political discourse: Ideology and ideologies -- 2.4 Conclusions: Methodological approaches to comparative political discourse analysis -- 3. Contexts of the Third Way in Germany and the UK -- 3.1 The long end of the social democratic century: A brief comparative history of Labour and the SPD -- 3.2 Discourses of the Third Way - a global phenomenon? -- 3.3 The political systems and political cultures of Germany and the United Kingdom as discourse contexts -- 3.4 Texts of the Third Way in Germany and the UK: Corpus justification and description -- 3.5 Conclusions: Research questions for a comparative politico-linguistic discourse analysis of Third-Way discourses -- 4. Texts in context: Register and genre in the discourses of the Third Way -- 4.1 Genre and the text-context relations in political discourse -- 4.2 Uniting the party, uniting the nation: Party conference speeches as a genre in the discourses of the Third Way -- 4.3 Integrating and promoting the party: The genre election manifesto in the discourses of the Third Way.

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Golden age myths as an answer to political crises are a recurrent phenomenon. This article demonstrates how the idea of a past golden age as the answer to a crisis of society was employed in the discourses of the Third Way: At the turn of the 20th century, the Social Democrats (SPD) in Germany and New Labour in Britain employed a golden age myth to define their politics. Analysing a corpus of texts from the Labour Party and the SPD between 1990 and 2005, this article demonstrates how global ideological trends are locally legitimized differently through the use of local political myths. The major contribution to the field of political discourse analysis lies in the discussion of mythopoesis as a legitimatory strategy, as well as in the analysis of the local adaptation of the golden age myth, which draws on Laclau's discourse theory and its idea of empty signifiers.

Golden age myths as an answer to political crises are a recurrent phenomenon. This article demonstrates how the idea of a past golden age as the answer to a crisis of society was employed in the discourses of the Third Way: At the turn of the 20th century, the Social Democrats (SPD) in Germany and New Labour in Britain employed a golden age myth to define their politics. Analysing a corpus of texts from the Labour Party and the SPD between 1990 and 2005, this article demonstrates how global ideological trends are locally legitimized differently through the use of local political myths. The major contribution to the field of political discourse analysis lies in the discussion of mythopoesis as a legitimatory strategy, as well as in the analysis of the local adaptation of the golden age myth, which draws on Laclau's discourse theory and its idea of empty signifiers

This article aims to fill a gap in the existing research by analysing the construction of leadership and group identity in a corpus of 13 party conference speeches by the party leaders of the German SPD and the British Labour party between 1997 and 2003. The comparative approach chosen will demonstrate the context sensitivity and strategic use of the pronominal self-references. The article will demonstrate how changes of pronominal self-reference in party conference speeches can be understood as strategic changes of footing (Goffman, 1981) to foreground either the voice of the party leader or the voice of the party. It will conclude with the results of an analysis of the combination of pronominal self-references and verb forms construing competence and responsiveness, as suggested by Fetzer and Bull (2012), and demonstrates that these verb forms are used differently in combination with the various forms of self-reference, a fact neglected in their analysis.

"Doing politics" : recent developments in political discourse analysis / Michael Kranert and Geraldine Horan -- "We have the character of an island nation" : A discourse-historical analysis of David Cameron's "Bloomberg speech" on the European Union / Ruth Wodak -- "Dancing with doxa" : a "rhetorical political analysis" of David Cameron's sense of Britishness / Alan Finlayson -- Charting the semantics of labour relations in House of Commons debates spanning two hundred years : a study of Parliamentary language using corpus linguistic methods and automated semantic tagging / Jane Demmen, Lesley Jeffries and Brian Walker -- Off the record : the transcription of parliamentary debates for political discourse analysis / Sylvia Shaw -- Making "politics" relevant : how constituents and a member of Parliament raise political topics at constituency surgeries / Emily Hofstetter and Elizabeth Stokoe -- A cross-linguistic study of new populist language / Maria Ivana Lorenzetti -- Disciplining the unwilling : normalisation of (demands for) punitive measures against immigrants in Austrian populist discourse / Markus Rheindorf -- Es-tu Charlie? Doing politics on Wikipedia / Susanne Kopf and Elena Nichele -- United we diverge : politician Facebook responses to terror attacks / Anders Horsbøl -- Hybridity and antagonism in broadcast election campaign interviews / Argyro Kantara -- Mediated campaign debate subgenre and their importance for analytic considerations / Karen L. Adams -- Cross-talk in political discourse : strategies for bridging issue movements on Democracy Now! / Amoshaun Toft -- Reading political minds : "backstage" politics in audience reception / Sam Browse -- "All this is a boon to Britain's crumbling democracy" : meta-reporting about the TV debates in the British General Election 2015 / Melani Schroeter -- Red lines and rash decisions : Syria, metaphor and narrative / Federica Ferrari and Ben O'Loughlin

Intro -- Doing Politics -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- Contexts, aims and scope of this volume -- The new field of discourse studies (DS) -- Political discourse analysis (PDA) -- Doing politics -- The structure and content of this volume: Themes, genres, methods -- Part I. Multidisciplinary approaches to political discourse - linguistic and political analysis -- Part II. Representing the people, representing the government - political discourse of British MPs -- Part III. Doing populism -- Part IV. Mediated politics -- Part V. Self-referential political discourse -- Part VI. Doing foreign policy -- References -- Part I. Multidisciplinary approaches to political discourse -- "We have the character of an island nation" -- Introduction -- The discourse-historical approach and nationalistic body-politics -- The discourse-historical approach - A summary -- Nationalism and body-politics -- Broad and narrow contexts -- Analysing the Bloomberg Speech -- Macro-topics -- Argumentative structure -- Body-politics - "The island nation" -- Coda -- Acknowledgement -- References -- "Dancing with doxa" -- Introduction -- Approaches and schools -- Conceptual history -- Rhetorical Political Analysis -- Cameron's speech -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II. Representing the people, representing the government -- Charting the semantics of labour relations in House of Commons debates spanning two hundred years -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The HTST and the SAMUELS project -- 3. The Hansard Corpus -- 4. Identifying words relating to labour relations using HT semantic categories -- 5. The semantics of labour relations in House of Commons debates over time -- 5.1 Quantifying labour relations talk in House of Commons debates overall -- 5.2 Semantic categories of labour relations data

While increasing academic attention has been paid to the precariousness of contemporary work, less research has examined how workers organise in response. This article examines how a group of precarious workers – commercial photographers – use an online forum to resist changes to their working conditions. Our findings illustrate how the forum enables photographers to share knowledge, debate rules and organise collectively. We discuss two implications: firstly that the forum performs many of the functions of a professional association, and so gives us a new insight into how traditional forms of worker organisation may be translated in the digital realm; and secondly, that the form of collective resistance produced by the group may constitute a move beyond existing understandings of online resistance as relatively ineffectual. Our work contributes a new perspective on how precarity is reshaping workers' collective organisation and resistance mechanisms.

The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted a unique global experience, arousing both exclusionary nationalistic and inclusionary responses of solidarity. This article aims to explore the discursive and linguistic means by which the COVID-19 pandemic, as a macro-event, has been translated into local micro-events. The analysis studies the global pandemic through the initial statements of 29 leading political actors across four continents. The aim is to examine discursive constructions of solidarity and nationalism through the social representation of inclusion/exclusion of in-, out-, and affiliated groups. The comparative analysis is based on the theoretical and methodological framework of the socio-cognitive approach to critical discourse analysis and is informed by argumentation theory and nationalism studies. The results of our analysis suggest that leaders have constructed the virus as the main outgroup through the metaphors of the pandemic-as-war and the pandemic-as-movement which have entered the national space. Faced with this threat, these speeches have discursively constructed the nation-as-a-team as the main in-group and prioritized (1) a vertical type of solidarity based on nationhood and according to governmental plans; (2) exclusionary solidarity against rule-breakers; (3) horizontal solidarity that is both intergenerational and among family members, and (4) transnational solidarity. It is not by chance that the world stands as a relevant affiliated group that needs to forcibly collaborate in order to face the main outgroup, the virus itself. A major consensus has been found in constructing the out-group. In contrast, the linguistic and discursive constructions of in-groups and their affiliates display a greater variation, depending upon the prevalent discursive practices and social context within different countries.

The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted a unique global experience, arousing both exclusionary nationalistic and inclusionary responses of solidarity. This article aims to explore the discursive and linguistic means by which the COVID-19 pandemic, as a macro-event, has been translated into local micro-events. The analysis studies the global pandemic through the initial statements of 29 leading political actors across four continents. The aim is to examine discursive constructions of solidarity and nationalism through the social representation of inclusion/exclusion of in-, out-, and affiliated groups. The comparative analysis is based on the theoretical and methodological framework of the socio-cognitive approach to critical discourse analysis and is informed by argumentation theory and nationalism studies. The results of our analysis suggest that leaders have constructed the virus as the main outgroup through the metaphors of the pandemic-as-war and the pandemic-as-movement which have entered the national space. Faced with this threat, these speeches have discursively constructed the nation-as-a-team as the main in-group and prioritized (1) a vertical type of solidarity based on nationhood and according to governmental plans; (2) exclusionary solidarity against rule-breakers; (3) horizontal solidarity that is both intergenerational and among family members, and (4) transnational solidarity. It is not by chance that the world stands as a relevant affiliated group that needs to forcibly collaborate in order to face the main out- group, the virus itself. A major consensus has been found in constructing the out-group. In contrast, the linguistic and discursive constructions of in-groups and their affiliates display a greater variation, depending upon the prevalent discursive practices and social context within different countries.

The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted a unique global experience, arousing both exclusionary nationalistic and inclusionary responses of solidarity. This article aims to explore the discursive and linguistic means by which the COVID-19 pandemic, as a macro-event, has been translated into local micro-events. The analysis studies the global pandemic through the initial statements of 29 leading political actors across four continents. The aim is to examine discursive constructions of solidarity and nationalism through the social representation of inclusion/exclusion of in-, out-, and affiliated groups. The comparative analysis is based on the theoretical and methodological framework of the socio-cognitive approach to critical discourse analysis and is informed by argumentation theory and nationalism studies. The results of our analysis suggest that leaders have constructed the virus as the main outgroup through the metaphors of the pandemic-as-war and the pandemic-as-movement which have entered the national space. Faced with this threat, these speeches have discursively constructed the nation-as-a-team as the main in-group and prioritized (1) a vertical type of solidarity based on nationhood and according to governmental plans; (2) exclusionary solidarity against rule-breakers; (3) horizontal solidarity that is both intergenerational and among family members, and (4) transnational solidarity. It is not by chance that the world stands as a relevant affiliated group that needs to forcibly collaborate in order to face the main outgroup, the virus itself. A major consensus has been found in constructing the out-group. In contrast, the linguistic and discursive constructions of in-groups and their affiliates display a greater variation, depending upon the prevalent discursive practices and social context within different countries.