Constructing Brexit Britain : a corpus-assisted approach to national identity discourse /

"This book reveals a trajectory towards a discourse of national division in Brexit Britain in three datasets: pro-Brexit newspaper articles, UK Government documents, and interviews with individual citizens. Combining corpus linguistics, critical discourse analysis, and a discourse analysis of n...

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Main Author: Parnell, Tamsin (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, [2024]
Series:Corpus and discourse
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Summary:"This book reveals a trajectory towards a discourse of national division in Brexit Britain in three datasets: pro-Brexit newspaper articles, UK Government documents, and interviews with individual citizens. Combining corpus linguistics, critical discourse analysis, and a discourse analysis of narratives, Constructing Brexit Britain considers one aspect of the Brexit process: the language that journalists, politicians and individuals used to write and talk about what it means to be British and European around the time of Brexit. Demonstrating the important role that (supra-)national identity discourses played in discussions about Brexit, the book traces a shift towards a representation of Brexit Britain as divided and in decline at a time when the construction of a collective identity is likely to be paramount"--
Physical Description:1 online resource.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781350436978 (electronic bk.)
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