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Imagining the Peoples of Europe: Populist discourses across the political spectrum
Edited by Jan Zienkowski and Ruth Breeze
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 83] 2019
► pp. 341–361

Chapter 13
Populist discursive strategies surrounding the immigration quota referendum in Hungary

The present chapter approaches populist discourse in Hungary through a case study of parliamentary speeches surrounding the immigration quota referendum of 2 October, 2016. The analysis uses a mixed methodology of quantitative and qualitative approaches at the intersection of corpus linguistics, Critical Discourse Analysis and pragmatic marker research. The aim is to identify populist discursive strategies used by government and opposition parties in the course of parliamentary debates relating to (anti-)immigration in general and the immigration quota referendum in particular. The findings suggest that most discursive strategies (e.g. polarizing, suppression, antagonizing, selective presentation) can be observed in both pro- and anti-government campaigns, but there are differences in the degree of implicitness/explicitness used and in the linguistic realizations of the strategies.
Keywords: corpus linguistics, CDA, pragmatic markers, political discourse, populist discursive strategies
Article outline
  • Introduction: Populism and populist discursive strategies
  • Background to Hungary’s ‘illiberal democracy’ and the immigration quota referendum
  • Research questions, methodology and research material
  • Populist discursive strategies in parliamentary speeches
    • Combining critical discourse analytical and corpus linguistic approaches
    • Characteristics of parliamentary speech
    • Propositional lexical items used as manifestations of populist discursive strategies
  • Conclusions and possible directions for further research
  • Appendix
  • Notes
  • References
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Published online: 13 August 2019
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