Riding the Populist Wave. Metaphors of Populism and Anti-Populism in the Daily Mail and The Guardian
This paper addresses the construction of the concepts of populism and anti-populism and their metaphorical realisations in British news discourse, and specifically in the Daily Mail and The Guardian, in 2016, a crucial year for populist politics. The analysis of two corpora made of articles from the...
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| author | Massimiliano Demata Michelangelo Conoscenti Yannis Stavrakakis |
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| description | This paper addresses the construction of the concepts of populism and anti-populism and their metaphorical realisations in British news discourse, and specifically in the Daily Mail and The Guardian, in 2016, a crucial year for populist politics. The analysis of two corpora made of articles from the two newspapers is based on the methodology offered by Corpus Linguistics and Corpus Approach to Critical Metaphor Analysis. The metaphors of populism emerging from the analysis highlight a substantially standardised use of the metaphor POPULISM IS (UPWARD) MOVEMENT, both for populists and anti-populists, but with diverging evaluations. The authors argue that metaphors play a key role in orienting the public perception of populism based on shared modes of understanding social and political life. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-df5cb51e4e5a497c9431c814f12ae4f72022-12-21T19:51:58ZengDepartment of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of VeronaIperstoria2281-45822020-06-0101510.13136/2281-4582/2020.i15.686592Riding the Populist Wave. Metaphors of Populism and Anti-Populism in the Daily Mail and The GuardianMassimiliano DemataMichelangelo ConoscentiYannis StavrakakisThis paper addresses the construction of the concepts of populism and anti-populism and their metaphorical realisations in British news discourse, and specifically in the Daily Mail and The Guardian, in 2016, a crucial year for populist politics. The analysis of two corpora made of articles from the two newspapers is based on the methodology offered by Corpus Linguistics and Corpus Approach to Critical Metaphor Analysis. The metaphors of populism emerging from the analysis highlight a substantially standardised use of the metaphor POPULISM IS (UPWARD) MOVEMENT, both for populists and anti-populists, but with diverging evaluations. The authors argue that metaphors play a key role in orienting the public perception of populism based on shared modes of understanding social and political life.https://iperstoria.it/article/view/686anti-populismmetaphorsmedianewspopulism |
| spellingShingle | Massimiliano Demata Michelangelo Conoscenti Yannis Stavrakakis Riding the Populist Wave. Metaphors of Populism and Anti-Populism in the Daily Mail and The Guardian Iperstoria anti-populism metaphors media news populism |
| title | Riding the Populist Wave. Metaphors of Populism and Anti-Populism in the Daily Mail and The Guardian |
| title_full | Riding the Populist Wave. Metaphors of Populism and Anti-Populism in the Daily Mail and The Guardian |
| title_fullStr | Riding the Populist Wave. Metaphors of Populism and Anti-Populism in the Daily Mail and The Guardian |
| title_full_unstemmed | Riding the Populist Wave. Metaphors of Populism and Anti-Populism in the Daily Mail and The Guardian |
| title_short | Riding the Populist Wave. Metaphors of Populism and Anti-Populism in the Daily Mail and The Guardian |
| title_sort | riding the populist wave metaphors of populism and anti populism in the daily mail and the guardian |
| topic | anti-populism metaphors media news populism |
| url | https://iperstoria.it/article/view/686 |
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