Othering through blame: The EU as the blame target in the UK government’s post-Brexit rhetoric

IF 2.3 2区 文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION Discourse Context & Media Pub Date : 2024-03-28 DOI:10.1016/j.dcm.2024.100773
Monika Brusenbauch Meislová
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This article uniquely illustrates the intricate and complex dynamics between blame and the othering process. It does so by unearthing how the British Conservative government, led by Boris Johnson, systematically used blame to reproductively depict the EU, ex negativo, as the “other” to the British “self” between 1 January 2021 (the end of the transition period) and 6 September 2022 (the end of Johnson’s tenure as prime minister). The study works with a comprehensive dataset of the UK government’s official pronouncements on the EU and Brexit collected from Gov.uk (the official government website) and Hansard (the official resource documenting British parliamentary proceedings), as the very points of origin for mediation, which were then often disseminated, interpreted and amplified by the media. Drawing on Hansson’s typology of blame avoidance strategies and Krzyżanowski’s operationalisation of the discourse historical approach, due attention is paid to the topical structure of blame discourse and its underlying discursive strategies.

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通过指责实现他者化:英国政府在脱欧后的言论中将欧盟作为指责对象
本文以独特的方式说明了指责与他者化过程之间错综复杂的动态关系。它揭示了由鲍里斯-约翰逊(Boris Johnson)领导的英国保守党政府在 2021 年 1 月 1 日(过渡期结束)至 2022 年 9 月 6 日(约翰逊首相任期结束)期间,如何系统地利用指责来复制性地将欧盟描述为英国 "自我 "的 "他者"(ex negativo)。本研究使用了从 Gov.uk(政府官方网站)和 Hansard(记录英国议会程序的官方资源)收集的英国政府关于欧盟和英国脱欧的官方声明的综合数据集,这些声明是调解的原点,随后往往被媒体传播、解读和放大。借鉴汉森(Hansson)的避责策略类型学和克尔日扎诺夫斯基(Krzyżanowski)的话语历史方法的操作性,我们对指责话语的主题结构及其潜在的话语策略给予了应有的关注。
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