Economic Populism in British and American Political Discourse
A Comparative Analysis of Boris Johnson’s and Donald Trump’s Speeches
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Table Of Contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Table of Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter One: Economic Populism
- 1.1. Introduction
- 1.2. Populism
- 1.2.1 What Is Populism?
- 1.2.2 Economic Sources of Populism
- 1.2.3 Cultural Sources of Populism
- 1.3. Populist Economic Policy
- Chapter Two: Pragmatics of Political Discourse
- 2.1. Introduction
- 2.2. Political Discourse and Persuasion
- 2.2.1 Aristotle’s Persuasive Strategies
- 2.2.2 Speech Act Theory
- 2.2.3 Gricean Theory
- 2.3. Political Discourse
- 2.3.1. Politics and Political Discourse
- 2.3.2. Structures and Strategies of Political Discourse
- 2.3.3. Genres of Political Discourse
- Chapter Three: Conservative Parties in the UK and the USA
- 3.1. Introduction
- 3.2. Conservative Political thought
- 3.2.1. History and Positions
- 3.2.2. Economics
- 3.2.3 Right-wing Populism
- 3.3. Main Conservative Parties in the UK and the USA and Its Leaders
- 3.3.1 The Conservative and Unionist Party
- 3.3.2 The Republican Party
- Chapter Four: Comparative Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis of Boris Johnson’s and Donald Trump’s Political Speeches
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Boris Johnson’s Political Discourse as a British Prime Minister
- 4.3 Donald Trump’s Political Discourse as a US President
- 4.4 Conservative Political Discourse of Boris Johnson and Donald Trump: A Comparative Analysis
- 4.4.1. Data and Methodology
- 4.4.2. Boris Johnson’s and Donald Trump’s Political Speeches Analysis Using AntConc
- 4.4.3. Discussion of the Results
- Conclusions
- References
- Index of Names
- Series Index
List of Tables
Table 1. Five cultural explanations of populism
Table 2. Aristotle’s three dimension used in practice
Table 3. The differences between three categories of linguistic acts
Table 4. Differences between conventional and conversational implicature
Table 5. Main features of laissez-faire and social democratic economy
Table 6. Right-wing populist parties across the world
Table 7. Conservative and Labour British Prime Ministers after the Second World War
Table 8. Republican and Democratic American Presidents after the Second World War
Table 9. The Boris Johnson’s corpus
Table 10. The Donald Trump’s corpus
Table 11. Ten most frequently used words in Johnson’s and Trump’s corpus
Table 12. Concordance tool for the word country in Boris Johnson’s corpus
Table 13. Concordance tool for the word country in Donald Trump’s corpus
Table 14. Concordance tool for the word people in Boris Johnson’s corpus
Table 15. Concordance tool for the word people in Donald Trump’s corpus
Table 16. Concordance tool for the word new in Boris Johnson’s corpus
Table 17. Concordance tool for the word new in Donald Trump’s corpus
Table 18. Concordance tool for the word world in Boris Johnson’s corpus
Table 19. Concordance tool for the word world in Donald Trump’s corpus
List of Figures
Figure 1. Capital mobility and financial crises
Figure 2. Current account balance 2005–2021 (% GDP)
Figure 3. General government gross debt 2005–2021 (% GDP)
Figure 4. Aristotle’s rhetorical appeal
Figure 5. Types of implicature
Figure 6. Narratives and discourse
Figure 7. United Kingdom Gross Domestic Product and inflation in the period of 1980 and 1990
Acknowledgments
I would like to thank the following people, without whom I would not have been able to complete this book. First, the Institute of English Studies team at the University of Lodz, especially my supervisor Professor Piotr Cap, for his enthusiasm, consistent support, and guidance during writing my thesis.
Special thanks should be given to the reviewer Piotr Zientara from the University of Gdansk, and the proofreaders. The quality of the final version would be significantly lower without their assistance.
Also, I would like to thank Adam Gorlikowski and Lukasz Galecki, my editors at the Peter Lang Group. Thank you sincerely for your support and professional management of the publication process. Most of all, my thanks go to my family for all the unconditional assistance and patience.
Introduction
What is populism? Is populism a new phenomenon spreading in the US and Europe in the last decade? The rise of political leaders and movements labelled ‘populist’ has immensely increased the peoples’ interest in populism itself and its conceptualization. The term populism is multi-layered in nature. Indeed, it is analysed across many fields of science, i.e. political studies, pragmatics, communication and economics and sociology. Populism has no inclusive definitions but usually it is characterized by its claim to represent the will of the people and it is defined as an ideology, a discourse, or a political strategy. Despite the increasing media and academic attention, the concept of populism is hard to define, and it should be conceptualized taking into consideration different existing research traditions and ideational, discursive, performative, and strategic elements of this complex phenomenon.
Details
- Pages
- 176
- Year
- 2022
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9783631887820
- ISBN (ePUB)
- 9783631888377
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9783631856093
- DOI
- 10.3726/b20124
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2022 (October)
- Keywords
- language and politics conservatism national security immigration globalization technological advances
- Published
- Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Wien, 2022. 176 pp., 9 fig. b/w, 19 tables.
