35.3603, Books: Constructing Brexit Britain: Parnell (2024)

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Subject: 35.3603, Books: Constructing Brexit Britain: Parnell (2024)

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Date: 18-Dec-2024
From: Rachel Bradshaw [rachel.bradshaw at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: Constructing Brexit Britain: Parnell (2024)


Title: Constructing Brexit Britain
Subtitle: A Corpus-Assisted Approach to National Identity Discourse
Publication Year: 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
                http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/constructing-brexit-britain-9781350436947/

Author: Tamsin Parnell
Hardback: ISBN: 9781350436947 Pages: 248 Price: U.K. £ 95
Abstract:

Combining corpus linguistics, critical discourse analysis, and a
discourse analysis of narratives, this book considers one aspect of
the Brexit process: the language that journalists, politicians and
individuals used to write and talk about what it means to be British
and European around the time of Brexit. It reveals a trajectory
towards a discourse of national division in Brexit Britain in three
datasets: pro-Brexit newspaper articles, UK Government documents, and
interviews with individual citizens.

Demonstrating the important role that (supra-)national identity
discourses played in discussions about Brexit, the book traces a shift
towards a representation of Brexit Britain as divided and in decline
at a time when the construction of a collective identity is likely to
be paramount. The emerging representation is a direct contradiction of
the great global trading nation narrative that the Vote Leave
campaigners – and later the UK Government – promised, questioning the
discursive success of the Global Britain project.

Constructing Brexit Britain demonstrates that the transition from pre-
to post-Brexit Britain was a crucial period of destabilisation for
institutional and lay national identity narratives. It also
illustrates that the coming years are likely to be just as important,
as the UK forges its post-Brexit place in the world amid declining
levels of trust in politicians, calls for a second Scottish membership
referendum, the COVID-19 pandemic, and a cost of living crisis.

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                     General Linguistics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Written In: English (eng)



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