Enemy narratives
How the official Brexit campaign “Vote Leave” narrated the boundaries of the British Nation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6084447 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alma-Pierre Bonnet (0009-0007-1563-3862) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Publication date | 2024-08-05 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Language and Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1569-2159 • E-ISSN: 1569-9862 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/jlp.24095.bon |
| OpenAlex | W4401336936 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 63 |
Within the fields of narratology, cognitive linguistics and discourse analysis, this article studies how “Vote Leave” – the “respectable” side of the pro-Brexit debate –, used storytelling to frame an exclusionary conception of the British nation. To do so, the article relies on a critical narrative analysis of the storytelling elements at the heart of a corpus of official documents from the 2016 campaign, and argues that those Brexit narratives were instrumental in the creation of a nativist conception of the British nation. The paper contributes to the rich literature on Brexit narratives by adopting an original approach focusing on what we call “enemy narratives” and on how this type of narratives helped construct a restrictive understanding of the British nation. The result will be correlated with the growing political polarization of post-Brexit British society and the emergence of what some researchers consider as a culture war
Adversary · Brexit · European union · Linguistics · Media studies · Narrative · Narratology · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Storytelling · Media Studies and Communication · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy
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| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |