Emotion in politics: Affective-discursive practices in UKIP and Labour

Breeze, Ruth

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“…Concluye De Santiago (2016 que "la selección léxica acompaña a este discurso maniqueo canónico que desprende cierto aroma a antiguo por la selección de los términos que emplea, un lenguaje propio de la retórica de la izquierda que conforma un relato próximo a la épica de la revolución de los pueblos", "una selección léxica de términos negativos extremos y una narración épica". En el volumen colectivo editado por Zienkowski y Breeze (2019), Montesano Montessori y Morales López (2019: 144) muestran, mediante los empleos discursivos de figuras retóricas como la metáfora y la sinécdoque por parte de los líderes del partido, cómo Podemos created a counterhegemonic narrative based on the demands and interpretations of 15M, in which it decodes the discourses and practices of the traditional parties and recodes and enacts those of the new politics while claiming the need to reverse the power structures in a desired opposite direction.…”

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“…Dentro de tales partidos se observan diversos acentos o rasgos particulares. Uno de los que se ha destacado en varios partidos populistas es el abundante empleo de léxico emocional (Breeze 2019). En el Documento político aquí examinado, si bien se registran algunas unidades léxicas de carácter emotivo ("ensañamiento [de las políticas de los presidentes Zapatero y Rajoy] con amplísimos sectores populares", con la consiguiente "terrible frustración de expectativas"; "imponer la resignación disfrazándola de recuperación", "violencias machistas", "el bloque del miedo"; "la agresividad de los que hoy gobiernan"; cultura misógina y violenta"), no resultan significativas ni por su abundancia ni por su frecuencia.…”

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El discurso político de Podemos: la construcción de una identidad

Velarde

2019

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Resumen. El presente artículo aborda el estudio acerca de cómo construye discursivamente su identidad el partido político español Podemos, e intenta responder a la pregunta acerca de si se le puede calificar de populista en sentido estricto. El corpus en que se basa la investigación está constituido por el "Documento político" de Podemos, disponible en la web del partido. Tras una descripción de los rasgos lingüísticos de ese texto, con particular hincapié en los de carácter léxicosemántico (con algunos datos cuantitativos y estadísticos relevantes), se ponen de relieve los recursos discursivos empleados para construir la identidad del partido. Se pasa a continuación a comparar los rasgos caracterizadores del discurso de Podemos con los aportados por otros estudios recientes sobre partidos populistas, para concluir que Podemos representa un partido político de perfil nítidamente populista.Palabras clave: Análisis del discurso; discurso político; Podemos; populismo.[en] The political discourse of Podemos: the construction of an identity Abstract. This article deals with the study about how the Spanish political party Podemos constructs its identity discursively, and tries to answer the question about whether it can be qualified as a populist in the strict sense. The corpus on which the investigation is based is constituted by the "Political document" of Podemos, available on the party's website. After a description of the linguistic features of that text, with particular emphasis on those of lexical-semantic character (with some relevant quantitative and statistical data), the discursive resources used to build the identity of the party are highlighted. The next step is to compare the characterizing features of Podemos's discourse with those provided by other recent studies on populist parties, to conclude that Podemos represents a political party with a clearly populist profile.

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El discurso político de Podemos: la construcción de una identidad

Velarde

2019

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“…The aim of the paper is to semiotically unpack this myth as a case of affectivediscursive practice and thereby increase the understanding of the affective dimensions of fascist ideology and how national socialism has been discursively reinvented today. By exploring the myth as a resource of emotional appeal, the study continues the scholarly discussion on both the re-emergence of fascism and the performative power of affect in political discourse (Ahmed, 2004;Breeze, 2019;Chilton, 2017;Kølvraa, 2015;Mouffe, 2018;Salmela and von Scheve, 2018;von Scheve and Walter-Jochum, 2020;Wodak, 2015).…”

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Affective rebirth: Discursive gateways to contemporary national socialism

Westberg

2020

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This paper engages with the growth of contemporary fascism by arguing that affect plays a key role in its discourse. Departing from an understanding of affect as integral to discourse, the paper explores how the myth of palingenesis is employed by the most prominent Swedish Nazi movement to recruit new members. A methodological combination of affective – discursive theory, detailed representational analysis, and a critical reading that buys into the representations reveals the recruitment discourse as offering an affective script of feeling angry, insulted, and ashamed, as well as courageous, proud, and hopeful. These findings offer important insights into how affective–discursive practices are employed to create gateways to radicalization and ideologically motivated violence. In order to make sense of the attractiveness of contemporary fascism, the paper concludingly argues for multifaceted readings and contemplative critical engagement with the far and extreme right.

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“…In broad strokes, ‘high’ politicians tend to use a rationalist or ethically‐oriented discourse, keep their emotions well under control, and may be perceived as educated and polite, or as boring and distant, while ‘low’ politicians depend more on their personal charisma, are more demonstrative or emotional, ostentatiously exhibit popular tastes, and are more likely to use coarse or popular language. Moreover, as Rensmann (2006) and Breeze (2019) have pointed out, the populist style often deliberately breaches taboos or indulges in use of language that appears to condone or even glorify violence, in ways that are calculated to engage specific sectors of the population.…”

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“…In particular, numerous analyses have centred on Donald Trump: Bhatia and Ross (2019) have studied his repeated use of particular phrases to delegitimise his rivals, McCallum‐Bayliss (2019) and Schoor (2020) have both scrutinised his use of conceptual metaphor, while Breeze (2017) has pointed to his effective, habitual use of dichotomies. Outside the US context, Breeze (2019) has analysed appeals to emotion, focusing on the contrast between anger (in populist discourse) and concern (which is more typical of mainstream politics) (Breeze, 2019). Aiezza (2019) has addressed Salvini's performances, discussing his identity‐based appeals to the in‐group.…”

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Exploring populist styles of political discourse in Twitter

Breeze

2020

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In public controversy after the Brexit referendum, social media played a prominent role. In particular, veteran populist anti-EU campaigner Nigel Farage used Twitter as a powerful weapon to further his cause. This paper compares a corpus of Farage's tweets in 2017-2018 with those by four other prominent British politicians (May, Johnson, Corbyn and Starmer). Quantitative corpus linguistics techniques are combined with qualitative analysis to examine how Farage creates a distinctive discursive style that is both down-to-earth and emotive. Various markers of register and affect are identified, and three core aspects of Farage's populist appeal to 'the people' are outlined, including the projection of negative emotions, especially anger/violence; the use of questions to provoke reactions; and the deployment of colloquial expressions and catchphrases to resonate with popular audiences and claim the status of 'common sense'. 1 INTRODUCTION The resurgence of populism and proliferation of social media are two phenomena that are often brought into association. On the one hand, media such as Twitter, Facebook or YouTube enable politicians to reach out to global audiences as never before-or to tune their messages to appeal to specific audiences on a more personal level. On the other hand, even though mass diffusion and audience-focused communications are available to all political movements, certain politicians have been seen to make particularly effective use of them. These are usually politicians with something that can be described as a 'populist style'-a term used rather loosely to mean a particularly provocative way of communicating that promotes radical political solutions, generally on the far right or left. Importantly in all this, we have to understand that such politicians' public appearances are not so much about offering constructive policy proposals, but more about styles of presenting themselves to the public (Ostiguy, 2009, p. 44). The populist style seems to be characterised by performances that project a strong identification with a homogenous 'people' , combined with the projection and vilification of internal or external 'enemies of the people' (Moffitt & Tormey, 2013). This pattern of 'glorification and denunciation' , as Vossen (2010, p. 24) puts it, is heightened by a sense of mounting crisis used to justify radical action (Moffitt & Tormey, 2013). In such performances, the identification with the virtuous people against a treacherous or 550

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Emotion in politics: Affective-discursive practices in UKIP and Labour

Cited by 90 publications

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El discurso político de Podemos: la construcción de una identidad

El discurso político de Podemos: la construcción de una identidad

Affective rebirth: Discursive gateways to contemporary national socialism

Exploring populist styles of political discourse in Twitter

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