Veronika Koller - Discourses Of Brexit

DISCOURSES OF BREXIT

Addressing a wide range of data and methods, Discourses of Brexit decodes the political, social and discursive strategies that shaped the No vote on the British EU referendum... a valuable contribution to both political science and discourse studies.

Salomi Boukala, Panteion University of Social & Political Sciences, Greece

We have been told that Brexit means Brexit. This book finds that it means rather more than that. Contributors explore the many things Brexit has been made to mean across genres and media. [...] It will be of interest and use to political scientists, media scholars and many others concerned with the future of political debate in Britain.

Alan Finlayson, University of East Anglia, UK

Discourses of Brexit provides a kaleidoscope of insights into how discourse influenced the outcome of the EU referendum and what discourses have sprung up as a result of it. Working with a wide variety of data, from political speeches to Twitter, and a wide range of methods, Discourses of Brexit presents the most thorough examination of the discourses around the British EU referendum and related events. It provides a comprehensive understanding of the discursive treatment of Brexit, while also providing detailed investigations of how Brexit has been negotiated in different contexts. Discourses of Brexit is key reading for all students and researchers in language and politics, discourse analysis and related areas, as well as anyone interested in developing their understanding of the referendum.

Veronika Koller is Reader in Discourse Studies at Lancaster University, UK.

Susanne Kopf is a Research and Teaching Assistant at WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria.

Marlene Miglbauer is Senior Lecturer in English Language, Linguistics and E-Learning at the University of Teacher Education Burgenland, Austria.

DISCOURSES OF BREXIT

Edited by Veronika Koller, Susanne Kopf
and Marlene Miglbauer

First published 2019
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Veronika Koller dedicates this book to her son, Ayo, British child of immigrant parents.

Susanne Kopf dedicates this book to her parents.

Marlene Miglbauer dedicates this book to Raphael.

The editors would like to thank Piotr Cap, Greg Myers and Stephanie Schnurr for reviewing the editors contributions to this volume. We would also like to thank Gerlinde Mautner for her helpful comments on many of the chapters.

Samuel Bennett is Assistant Professor at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland. His research centres around discursive constructions of migrant integration, community, (non-)belonging and exclusion, and populist politics. He is the author of Constructions of Migrant Integration in British Public Discourse (2018) and serves on the board of a migrant integration NGO in Poland.

Email: sbennett@wa.amu.edu.pl

Catherine Bouko is Assistant Professor in Multilingual Communication/French at Ghent University, Belgium. Her research interests are citizenship, identity and ideology in the digital world. She is developing a multilingual and multimodal approach to social media content, with her main research methods drawing on semiotics, pragmatics and discourse analysis.

Email: catherine.bouko@ugent.be

Piotr Cap is Professor of Linguistics at the University of d, Poland. His interests are in pragmatics, critical discourse studies and political linguistics. His books include Proximization (2013) and The Language of Fear (2017). He is managing editor of the International Review of Pragmatics .

Email: piotr.cap@uni.lodz.pl

Massimiliano Demata is Associate Professor for English Language at the University of Turin, Italy. He is the author of Representations of War and Terrorism (2008) and his current research focuses on populism, social media and multimodality in American politics.

Email: massimiliano.demata@unito.it

David Garcia is a faculty member at the Complexity Science Hub and the Medical University of Vienna, Austria. His main work revolves around the topics of emotions, health and political polarisation, combining statistical analyses of large datasets of online interaction with agent-based modelling of individual behaviour.

Email: garcia@csh.ac.at

Sten Hansson is a researcher at the University of Tartu, Estonia. He is developing new frameworks for analysing government communication, conflicts, scandals and blame games. Stens work has been published in Discourse & Society , Journal of Pragmatics, Critical Discourse Studies and the Routledge Handbook of Language and Politics (2017).

Email: sten.hansson@ut.ee

Andrew Kehoe is Associate Professor at Birmingham City University, UK. He has research interests in all aspects of corpus linguistics, with a particular emphasis on the analysis of web data. His recent work explores the language of blogs, eBay listings and reader comments on online news articles.

Email: andrew.kehoe@bcu.ac.uk

Veronika Koller is Reader in Discourse Studies at Lancaster University, UK. She works on corporate discourse, health communication, and language and sexuality. Her publications include Metaphor and Gender in Business Media Discourse (2004) and Lesbian Discourses (2008) as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters.

Email: v.koller@lancaster.ac.uk

Susanne Kopf completed her PhD at Lancaster University (UK) and is Research and Teaching Assistant at Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria. Her research addresses corpus-assisted (critical) discourse studies, Wikipedia and new media. She has published in Discourse, Context & Media and contributed to several edited volumes.

Email: susanne.kopf@wu.ac.at

Gordana Lali -Krstin received her PhD in Linguistics from the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad, Serbia, where she works as an assistant professor. Her research interests lie in the fields of lexicology, lexicography, cognitive linguistics and, more specifically, neologisms and lexical blends.

E-mail: gordana.lalic.krstin@ff.uns.ac.rs

Ursula Lutzky is Assistant Professor at Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria. Her research interests include business communication, discourse studies and language in use. In her recent publications, she has studied pragmatic phenomena in large corpora of digital discourse, such as blogs and microblogs, using a corpus-linguistic methodology.