Zappettini, Franco 
ORCID: 0000-0001-7049-4454
(2022)
Taking the left way out of Europe.
Journal of Language and Politics, 21 (2).
pp. 320-343.
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Abstract
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>This paper investigates how Brexit was de/legitimised by different Labour actors in a corpus of texts published after the referendum (2016–2020). It thus contributes an <jats:italic>intra-party</jats:italic> perspective to understanding discursive dynamics of European (dis)integration by building on the notorious ‘European question’ historically debated inside Labour and on the polysemy of Brexit constructed by/reflected in such discourses. The analysis, conducted at lexical-semantic and discursive-pragmatic levels, points to distinct strategic, ideological and ambivalent forms of de/legitimation of Brexit in the discourses of Labour. While strategic and ambivalent de/legitimation point to the Brexit debate being mainly driven by political communication logics, ideological de/legitimation highlights a deeper struggle inside Labour over EU-rope, especially in relation to international vs. national conceptualisations of socialism. While EU-rope was de/legitimised (and Brexit legitimised) by advocates of ‘socialism in one country’, reverse stances tended to be adopted by supporters of ‘international socialism’.</jats:p>
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Brexit, Labour, socialism, strategy, ideology, ambivalence, language, CDA |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of the Arts |
| Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Feb 2022 09:54 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Jan 2023 21:12 |
| DOI: | 10.1075/jlp.21069.zap |
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| URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3148614 |
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