Routledge Populist Discourse: Critical Approaches to Politics

Populist Discourse: Critical Approaches to Contemporary Politics provides a deep look into how language shapes modern political movements. This academic collection brings together experts from linguistics and political science to examine the way populist leaders communicate and how the media represents these movements across the globe. Through 17 distinct contributions, the book explores various temporal, geographical, and ideological contexts. Readers can study historical examples like Nazi Germany alongside modern political landscapes in Sweden, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Austria, Greece, the UK, the US, and South America. The text uses multiple analytical methods, including corpus-based discourse analysis and critical discourse analysis. By combining political perspectives with linguistic study, this volume offers a timely dissection of how populist rhetoric functions in the real world. It is an essential resource for students and researchers interested in the intersection of language and power in contemporary politics.