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Exploring populist styles of political discourse in Twitter
Abstract
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...
Paper Details
Title
Exploring populist styles of political discourse in Twitter
Published Date
May 14, 2020
Journal
Volume
39
Issue
4
Pages
550 - 567
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