Table of contents
Introduction: Imagining populism and the peoples of Europe
Chapter 1.The populist political logic and the discursive construction of ‘the people’
Chapter 2.A dialogue on populism? A study of intellectual discourse about populism in the Brexit debate in Italy and the UK
Chapter 3.European populism(s) as a counter-hegemonic discourse? The rise of Podemos and M5S in the wake of the crisis
Chapter 4.Islamic conservative populism in Turkey: The case of the AKP
Chapter 5.The articulation of ‘the people’ in the discourse of Podemos
Chapter 6.Building left-wing populism in Denmark: Moving far away from the right
Chapter 7.Performing ‘the people’? The populist style of politics in the German PEGIDA-movement
Chapter 8.The discursive construction of the people in European political discourse: Semantics and pragmatics of a contested concept in German, French, and British Parliamentary Debates
Chapter 9.Standing up for ‘real people’: UKIP, the Brexit, and discursive strategies on Twitter
Chapter 10.“The people” in the discourse of the Romanian government and opposition: Between populism and the quest for democracy
Chapter 11.The Volk (‘people’) and its modes of representation by Alternative für Deutschland-AfD (‘Alternative for Germany’)
Chapter 12.Measuring people-centrism in populist political discourse: A linguistic approach
Chapter 13.Populist discursive strategies surrounding the immigration quota referendum in Hungary
Concluding remarks: Appealing to the people
Index