34.731, Books: The Social Semiotics of Populism: Barreneche

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Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2023 01:24:48
From: Mahira Mannan [Mahira.Mannan at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: The Social Semiotics of Populism: Barreneche

 


Title: The Social Semiotics of Populism 
Publication Year: 2023 
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (formerly The Continuum International Publishing Group)
	   http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
	

Book URL: https://www.bloomsbury.com/social-semiotics-of-populism-9781350205390/ 


Author: Sebastián Moreno Barreneche

Electronic: ISBN:  9781350205406 Pages: 224 Price: U.K. £ 85.50 Comment: PDF
Electronic: ISBN:  9781350205413 Pages: 224 Price: U.K. £ 85.50 Comment: Epub & Mobi
Hardback: ISBN:  9781350205390 Pages: 224 Price: U.K. £ 95.00


Abstract:

The concept of 'populism' is currently used by scholars, the media and
political actors to refer to multiple and disparate manifestations and
phenomena from across both the left and the right ends of the political
spectrum. As a result, it defies neat definition, as scholarship on the topic
has shown over the last 50 years. In this book, Sebastián Moreno Barreneche
approaches populism from a semiotic perspective and argues that it constitutes
a specific social discourse grounded on a distinctive narrative structure that
is brought to life by political actors that are labelled 'populist'.

Conceiving of populism as a mode of semiotic production that is based on a
conception of the social space as divided into two groups, 'the People' and
'the Other', this book uses semiotic theory to make sense of this political
phenomenon. Exploring how the categories of 'the People' and 'the Other' are
discursively constructed by populist political actors through the use of
semiotic resources, the ways in which meaning emerges through the oppositions
between imagined collective actors is explained.

Drawing on examples from Europe, North America and South America, The Social
Semiotics of Populism presents a systematic semiotic approach to this
multifaceted political concept and bridges semiotic theory and populism
studies in an original manner.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     History of Linguistics
                     Pragmatics
                     Semantics
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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