Discourses of Brexit

1. Introduction: context, history and previous research

Veronika Koller, Susanne Kopf, Marlene Miglbauer

Part I: Discursive drivers of the Brexit vote

2. Values as tools of legitimation in EU and UK Brexit discourses

Samuel Bennett

3. 'This is about the kind of Britain we are': national identities as constructed in parliamentary debates about EU membership

Nora Wenzl

4. Ambient affiliation and #Brexit: negotiating values about experts through censure and ridicule

Michele Zappavigna

5. 'Britain is full to bursting point!': immigration themes in the Brexit discourse of the UK Independence Party

Piotr Cap

6. 'The British people have spoken': voter motivations and identities in vox pops on the British EU referendum

Marlene Miglbauer and Veronika Koller

7. 'Friends don't let friends go Brexiting without a mandate': changing discourses of Brexit in The Guardian

Ursula Lutzky and Andrew Kehoe

Part II: Discursive consequences of the Brexit vote

8. 'The referendum result delivered a clear message': Jeremy Corbyn's populist discourse

Massimiliano Demata

9. The official vision for 'global Britain': Brexit as rupture and continuity between free trade, liberal internationalism and 'values'

Franco Zappettini

10 'Get your shyte together Britain': Wikipedians' treatment of Brexit

Susanne Kopf

11. Citizens' reactions to Brexit on Twitter: a content and discourse analysis

Catherine Bouko and David Garcia

12. Brexit and blame avoidance: officeholders' discursive strategies of self-preservation

Sten Hansson

13. Brexit as 'having your cake and eating it': the discourse career of a proverb

Andreas Musolff

14. 'Don't go brexin' my heart': the ludic aspects of Brexit-induced neologisms

Gordana Lalic-Krstin and Nadezda Silaski

15. Brexit and discourse studies: reflections and outlook

Gerlinde Mautner