Table of Contents

Introduction - The critical juncture of Brexit in media & political discourses: from national-populist imaginary to cross-national social and political crisis 1. Splendid isolation again? Brexit and the role of the press and online media in re-narrating the European discourse 2. The Brexit referendum: how trade and immigration in the discourses of the official campaigns have legitimised a toxic (inter)national logic 3. ‘Out is out and that’s it the people have spoken’: uses of vox pops in UK TV news coverage of the Brexit referendum 4. Populism at work: the language of the Brexiteers and the European Union 5. ‘Crisis’ as a discursive strategy in Brexit referendum campaigns 6. Brexit and the imaginary of ‘crisis’: a discourse-conceptual analysis of European news media

About the Author

Franco Zappettini is a Lecturer and Director of Postgraduate Research in Communication and Media at the University of Liverpool, UK. His research focuses on the textual/discursive analysis of different forms of political and organisational communication including mediated forms of populism, such as tabloid populism and Euroscepticism in the British press. He has published internationally in peer-reviewed journals. His latest publication is the monograph European Identities in Discourse: A Transnational Citizens’ Perspective (2019).

Michał Krzyżanowski holds the Chair in Media and Communication Studies at Uppsala University, Sweden. He also remains affiliated to the Department of Communication & Media at the University of Liverpool, UK, and in 2018–19 he held the prestigious Albert Bonnier Jr. Guest Professorship in Media Studies at Stockholm University, Sweden. He is one of the leading international scholars working on critical discourse studies of race, ethnicity, and the politics of exclusion in the context of communication, media, and social change as well as of the challenges to democracy posed by the global rise of right-wing populism and neoliberalism. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Language and Politics and a co-editor of the Bloomsbury Advances in Critical Discourse Studies in addition to sitting on a number of boards in various journals and book series.