Discursive construction of affective polarization in Brexit Britain: Opinion-based identities and out-group differentiation

• Autores: Monika Brusenbauch Meislova
• Localización: Hate Speech and Polarization in Participatory Society / coord. por José Manuel Noguera Vivo, Marta Pérez Escolar, 2021, ISBN 9781003109891, págs. 98-112
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This chapter deals with the pertinent question of how Leavers and Remainers, as opinion-based groups, communicate, share and exchange their perceptions, cognitions and emotions in regard to out-groups. More specifically, drawing on the discourse-historical approach to critical discourse studies, it investigates which topics, discursive strategies and linguistic devices have been employed by British politicians to construct Leave and Remain identities in a sense of out-group antagonism(s) in contra-distinction to the given in-group. By looking at how Leavers and Remainers discursively construct the “other”, the inquiry provides an empirical example of (a part of) collective identity formation and meaning-making in the process of Brexit, and adds to the literature on growing affective polarization along Brexit lines in the UK.