Henkel, Imke (2021) Euphoric defiance: The role of positive emotions in the British Eurosceptic discourse. Journalism . ISSN 1464-8849
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Abstract
Ever since Britain voted to leave the European Union, emotions have dominated the public debate. How negative emotions, such as anger, have impacted the Brexit vote, has been widely researched. Less attention has been focused on the role positive emotions played in debating Britain’s relationship to the EU. Using critical discourse analysis and drawing on appraisal theory to investigate the representation of emotions in six sample texts from a corpus of so-called “Euromyths” (N=334), this study argues that positive emotions were used to create a myth in Roland Barthes’ sense to naturalise a Eurosceptic ideology of British defiance and power.
| Keywords: | Brexit, Euroscepticism, Euromyths, critical discourse analysis, myth, political communication, positive emotions, Roland Barthes |
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| Subjects: | L Social studies > L222 Democracy L Social studies > L200 Politics P Mass Communications and Documentation > P500 Journalism |
| Divisions: | College of Arts > School of English & Journalism > School of English & Journalism (Journalism) |
| ID Code: | 43426 |
| Deposited On: | 17 Dec 2020 15:30 |
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