Do we have all the necessary data? The challenge of measuring populism through metaphors

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="http://10.1007/s11135-019-00878-6" target="_blank" >http://10.1007/s11135-019-00878-6</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11135-019-00878-6" target="_blank" >10.1007/s11135-019-00878-6</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Do we have all the necessary data? The challenge of measuring populism through metaphors

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The aim of the paper is to highlight one possible method how to recognize populism in political communication. The method synthesizes frameworks of content analysis, metaphor analysis and Laclau’s perspective of populism as a style of communication that operates with empty signifiers. Laclau argues that populist statements usually contain stereotypes that are demonstrated as facts. These “facts” serve to strengthen social frustration of the masses, provoke their feeling of social injustice, and continually creating a gap between the elites and the people. All of this serves the populists, who use these “facts”, to gain popularity. Populists use terms like “nation”, “ours”, “theirs”, “migrants”, “good culture”, “bad Islam”, but they do not explain the proper meaning of these terms. The populist rhetoric is only about the style of communication, not the content. We can explain these categories through metaphors that link the reference terms to values. Populists can create implicit metaphors like CZECH NATION IS HUMANE (good) and its opposite – MIGRANTS ARE PSEUDO-HUMANE (evil). Thus they create specific mentality of evil/good. For demonstration of the step-by-step method there has been focused on the Czech political party called Freedom and Direct Democracy, especially on the speeches of its chairman Tomio Okamura. The data set is based on the discussion of the Czech parliament about the so-called “migration crisis”. According to the analysis, it is possible to distinguish populist rhetoric, and to find all populistic clauses in the examinated text.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Do we have all the necessary data? The challenge of measuring populism through metaphors

Popis výsledku anglicky

The aim of the paper is to highlight one possible method how to recognize populism in political communication. The method synthesizes frameworks of content analysis, metaphor analysis and Laclau’s perspective of populism as a style of communication that operates with empty signifiers. Laclau argues that populist statements usually contain stereotypes that are demonstrated as facts. These “facts” serve to strengthen social frustration of the masses, provoke their feeling of social injustice, and continually creating a gap between the elites and the people. All of this serves the populists, who use these “facts”, to gain popularity. Populists use terms like “nation”, “ours”, “theirs”, “migrants”, “good culture”, “bad Islam”, but they do not explain the proper meaning of these terms. The populist rhetoric is only about the style of communication, not the content. We can explain these categories through metaphors that link the reference terms to values. Populists can create implicit metaphors like CZECH NATION IS HUMANE (good) and its opposite – MIGRANTS ARE PSEUDO-HUMANE (evil). Thus they create specific mentality of evil/good. For demonstration of the step-by-step method there has been focused on the Czech political party called Freedom and Direct Democracy, especially on the speeches of its chairman Tomio Okamura. The data set is based on the discussion of the Czech parliament about the so-called “migration crisis”. According to the analysis, it is possible to distinguish populist rhetoric, and to find all populistic clauses in the examinated text.

Druh

J_SC - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50601 - Political science

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2019

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

QUALITY &amp; QUANTITY

ISSN

0033-5177

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

53

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

5

Stát vydavatele periodika

NL - Nizozemsko

Počet stran výsledku

18

Strana od-do

2653-2670

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85064949145