1st Edition

An Interdisciplinary Approach to Discourse on Populism Tracking the Uses of 'Populism' in Media and Political Discourse

238 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This collection examines the construction and circulation of discourses on populism, charting their role in shaping collective understandings of democracy. This volume advocates for an interdisciplinary approach to the study of populism as a form of categorisation used by several types of actors to label people and phenomena in political and social debate, with the first section highlighting... Read more

Chapter 1. Introduction: tracking the Uses of ‘Populism’ in Media and Political Discourse 

Laetitia Aulit, Anaïs Augé, Barbara De Cock, Philippe Hambye, Min Reuchamps, Sandrine Roginsky, and Coline Rondiat 

Part I. Methodological framework: how to make interdisciplinary research work?

Chapter 2. Building a multilingual multi-genre corpus for interdisciplinary research: data selection, collection techniques, and ethical considerations 
Barbara De Cock, Eva Rolin, Ferdinand Teuber, and Romane Werner

Chapter 3. Qualitative annotation of populism as a sociopolitical keyword
Philippe Hambye, Barbara De Cock, Raül Nuevo Gascó, Min Reuchamps, Sandrine Roginsky, Coline Rondiat, and Nadezda Shchinova

Chapter 4. Intercoder reliability in qualitative discourse analysis
Coline Rondiat, Christoph Niessen, Barbara De Cock, and Philippe Hambye


Part II. Interdisciplinary empirical studies: on the notion and use of populism in political and media discourse

Chapter 5. On the notion and use of 'populism' and 'populist' in political discourse: a comparative study in Spanish parliamentary debates and politicians’ tweets
Laetitia Aulit and Shchinova Nadezda

Chapter 6. A multi-layered and complexified linguistic approach to the analysis of discourse on populism
Laetitia Aulit, Anaïs Augé, Barbara De Cock, Philippe Hambye, and Coline Rondiat

Chapter 7. On the use of populis* in print media: a comparative study of press types in France and French-speaking Belgium
Sandrine Roginsky

Chapter 8. Circulating without circulation?  Analysis of the uses of populis* in French and Spanish parliaments, mass media, and social media
Sandrine Roginsky and Raül Nuevo Gasco

Chapter 9. The populist problem: on the uses of populis* in public discourse
Coline Rondiat

Chapter 10. Conclusion: the uses of 'populism' and democratic dynamics
Jessy Bailly and Min Reuchamps

Biography

Laetitia Aulit holds a PhD in Linguistics from UCLouvain and is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher for the TrUMPo project.

Anaïs Augé is a Postdoctoral Researcher, Lecturer, and Supervisor at UCLouvain.

Barbara De Cock is Professor in Spanish Linguistics at UCLouvain.

Min Reuchamps is Professor of Political Science at UCLouvain.

Sandrine Roginsky is Professor in Communication Studies at UCLouvain.

Coline Rondiat is pursuing a PhD in Linguistics and Political Science at the UCLouvain and the University of Antwerp.