Exploring populist styles of political discourse in Twitter

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...