Communication
Auge, Anais Camille ; Shchinova, Nadezda ;
Aulit, Laetitia ;
De Cock, Barbara
"Metaphors of Populism: National, Subnational, and Transnational narratives in Belgian, French, and Spanish Parliamentary Discourses"
Année de publication : 2024
This paper proposes to investigate the metaphors of POPULISM in parliamentary discourse. We conduct a study relying on texts produced in three countries: Belgium (Dutch- and French-speaking), France, and Spain. We selected texts produced in 2019, when several elections took place in these countries, to observe the metaphorical use of the term by politicians. This analysis allows us to compare the contexts where actors and actions are associated with different ‘populist’ ideologies and different forms of sub-state nationalism. This study aims at answering the following questions: 1. What are the metaphors that appear in this kind of discourse? And which metaphorical narratives do they construct?
2. How do these metaphorical narratives construct the subnational, national, transnational nature of populism?
Aulit, Laetitia; De Cock, Barbara; Hambye, Philippe;
Shchinova, Nadezda;
"Referencia al populismo en reacciones de oposición a propuestas políticas: estudio de sus usos y efectos en discursos parlamentarios"
Année de publication : 2024
Esta comunicación se enmarca en el proyecto Discourse, populism and democracy - Tracking the uses of populism in media and political discourse (UCLouvain) cuyos objetivos incluyen el estudio de los significados vinculados al uso del término populismo y de sus variantes (de ahora en adelante populis*) en contextos mediáticos y políticos. Si bien la referencia al populismo puede ser vista como “a meaningless buzzword” (Schwörer, 2021), también se documenta como “battle term” (Mudde & Rovira Kalwasser, 2017) empleado con connotaciones negativas para atacar y descalificar. Inscribiéndose en la línea de Shchinova (2023) sobre el discurso político en Twitter y De Cock (2023) sobre el discurso de investidura del Segundo Gobierno Sánchez, esta comunicación investiga el papel de populis*, esta vez en discursos parlamentarios en los que se reacciona a las propuestas de partidos opositores, y eso a fin de resaltar en qué medida se utiliza en el contexto de ataques al otro.
Bailly, Jessy
"Is Populism a New Cleavage in Parliaments? Insights from three Western European Countries"
Année de publication : 2024
This paper examines the uses of the words populism(s) and populist(s) by members of three Western European Parliaments (Belgium, France, Spain). It inquires whether these uses by Members of Parliament (MPs) reveal the emergence of a new political cleavage, distinguishing between MPs who identify as populists and those who align themselves as anti-populist figures.
Nuevo Gascó, Raül; Shchinova, Nadezda
"Analysis of the circulation of the terms populismo(s) and populista(s) on the Twitter accounts of the main political parties and leaders in Spain"
Année de publication : 2023
A pesar de haberse consolidado como figura pública especializada en temas de misterio, Iker Jiménez decidió ir más allá, y tras el fin del confinamiento decretado en marzo de 2020, el presentador de Cuatro comenzó una nueva emisión en Mediaset el 24 de septiembre de ese mismo año. El propósito de este programa, denominado Horizonte: Informe Covid, era tratar los aspectos que tenían relación con la crisis del Covid a nivel global.
Lava Santos, David ; Nuevo Gascó, Raül ;
Pop, Anastasia-Ioana
"Horizonte desinformativo: ¿bulos políticos difundidos por Iker Jiménez en Cuatro? "
Année de publication : 2023
A pesar de haberse consolidado como figura pública especializada en temas de misterio, Iker Jiménez decidió ir más allá, y tras el fin del confinamiento decretado en marzo de 2020, el presentador de Cuatro comenzó una nueva emisión en Mediaset el 24 de septiembre de ese mismo año. El propósito de este programa, denominado Horizonte: Informe Covid, era tratar los aspectos que tenían relación con la crisis del Covid a nivel global.
Nuevo Gascó, Raül
Discourse on populism in Europe: circulation of the world populis* between Spain, France and Belgium and its relation with their national contexts.
Année de publication : 2023
The study examines the circulation of the term populis* between Spain, France, and Belgium in the context of the year 2019. We employ a constructivist perspective to explore how varied expressions and interpretations of populism circulate across different national contexts and investigate the influence of third-country political contexts on national conceptions of populism.
Shchinova, Nadezda
Empty or overloaded? A comparative analysis of the keywords populism and populist in Belgian, French, and Spanish political and media discourses
Année de publication : 2023
Populism is a highly contested concept in academic and public debate which has been discussed within various fields as being "exceptionally vague" and used "in different contexts to a bewildering variety of phenomena" (Canovan, 1999: 3). Recent studies that analyse the uses of the term in discourse from the perspective of linguistics (Kranert, 2020; Thornborrow et al., 2021) have provided empirical results that present a challenge to a common view on populism as "empty" or "floating signifier" (Laclau, 2005).
De Cock, Barbara
"Do we think populists actually do something? A discursive analysis of populists as agents or patients in French, Spanish and Belgian tweets"
Année de publication : 2023
In this presentation, I will look into how the term populists is used in a comparable corpus of French, Spanish and Dutch tweets. This research is part of the broader project Tracking the uses of populism in media and political discourse (TrUMPo) (https://www.discourseonpopulism-uclouvain.com/), which adopts an interdisciplinary perspective to the analysis of discourse on populism (as opposed to discourse by politicians considered as populists).
Shchinova, Nadezda
A pragmatic analysis of populis* in French and Spanish parliamentary debates
Année de publication : 2022
This comparative study analyses quantitatively and qualitatively the occurrences of the term populis*—i.e., populism(s), populist(s)—in two datasets containing parliamentary debates that took place in 2019 in the French National Assembly and the Spanish Congress of Deputies.
Shchinova, Nadezda
Populismo, palabra clave en el debate político español en Twitter
Année de publication : 2022
La presente comunicación analiza el discurso político en Twitter en el contexto de España a finales de 2019. Este estudio se centra en los discursos en torno a los términos populismo, populismos, populista, populistas en los tuits de los principales partidos políticos y sus líderes participantes en las elecciones generales de noviembre 2019 (PSOE, PP, UP, Cs, VOX).
Shchinova, Nadezda; De Cock, Barbara; Hambye, Philippe; Nuevo Gascó, Raül; Roginsky, Sandrine
Online political discourse on populism: from self-expression to aggression
Année de publication : 2021
This study discusses the social acts performed through the use of the notion of populism on the social media platform Twitter and focuses on the use of the term populismo and its derivatives (e.g. populista)—henceforth populis*—in the tweets of Spanish politicians and the received interactions.
Shchinova, Nadezda and Nuevo Gascó, Raül
Transformations between political discourse and media representations: a comparative analysis of the term populis* in French media
Année de publication : 2021
The term populism is constantly used in political and media discourse. However, the meaning of populism is still open to debate among scholars, political actors, mass media and laypeople. A substantial amount of research in several disciplines has been focused on populism as an ideology (Mudde, 2004), as a discursive strategy (Charaudeau, 2011; Zienkowski & Breeze, 2019) and as a “communication phenomenon” (de Vreese et al., 2018).
Shchinova, Nadezda
Pragmatic functions of populis* in online political discourse: a case study on the Twitter discourse of Spanish politicians
Année de publication : 2021
This paper discusses online political discourse on populism and examines pragmatic functions of the term populis* in a corpus of political tweets from Spanish politicians and political parties posted in 2019.
De Cock, Barbara
¿Una coalición progresista o populista? Un análisis discursivo de la investidura del Segundo Gobierno Sánchez en España.
Année de publication : 2021
Ver publicación De Cock Barbara (2023).
Shchinova, Nadezda; De Cock, Barbara; Hambye, Philippe; Werner, Romane
The discursive construction of populism in the francophone Belgian media
Année de publication : 2021
In this paper, we examine the construction of the concept of populism in the francophone Belgian media outlets in 2019, a year when the European, federal, and regional elections took place in Belgium. Using a corpus-assisted discourse studies approach, we analyse the uses and the meanings of the term populis* (i.e. populisme and its derivatives) in order to determine what actors and phenomena are labelled as populist and what are the evaluations of such qualification.
