Voices of Supporters
Populist parties, social media and the 2019 European elections
Veronika Koller author Marlene Miglbauer author Susanne Kopf author Massimiliano Demata author Laura Filardo-Llamas author Natalia Borza author Anna W Gustafsson author Valeria Reggi author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
Published:1st Sep '23
Should be back in stock very soon
This book addresses an under-researched area within populism studies: the discourse of supporters of populist parties. Taking the 2019 European elections as their case study, the authors analyse how supporters in eleven different countries construct identities and voting motivations on social media. The individual chapters comprise a range of methods to investigate data from different social media platforms, defining populism as a political strategy and/or practice, realised in discourse, that is based on a dichotomy between “the people”, who are unified by their will, and an out-group whose actions are not in the interest of the people, with a leader safeguarding the interests of the people against the out-group. The book identifies what motivates people to vote for populist parties, what role national identities and values play in those motivations, and how the social media postings of populist parties are recontextualised in supporters’ comments to serve as a voting motivation.
This book makes a significant contribution to discourse analytic research on populism. [...] This book conducts a multimodal analysis of the voices of populist supporters on social media, offering a comprehensive examination of the resurgent populism phenomenon. It makes a substantial contribution to understanding the motivations behind individuals voting for populist parties. This book is a valuable addition to the existing literature on discourse analytic research and serves as an ideal resource for scholars interested in this field of study. -- Shuqiong Wu and Shiyu Chen, Sichuan International Studies University, in Journal of Language and Politics 23:6 (2024).
ISBN: 9789027213884
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 750g
333 pages