Massimiliano Demata
List of John Benjamins publications for which Massimiliano Demata plays a role.
Journal
ISSN 2213-1272 | E-ISSN 2213-1280
Titles
Voices of Supporters: Populist parties, social media and the 2019 European elections
Veronika Koller, Natalia Borza, Massimiliano Demata, Laura Filardo-Llamas, Anna W. Gustafsson, Susanne Kopf, Marlene Miglbauer, Valeria Reggi, Ljiljana Šarić, Charlotta Seiler Brylla and Maria Stopfner
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 101] 2023. vi, 333 pp.
Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Conspiracy Theory Discourses
Edited by Massimiliano Demata, Virginia Zorzi and Angela Zottola
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 98] 2022. x, 509 pp.
Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Articles
2024 Chapter 5. The legitimation of conspiracy theories through manipulation: The case of climate lockdowns Manufacturing Dissent: Manipulation and counter-manipulation in times of crisis, Ilie, Cornelia (ed.), pp. 157–183 | Chapter
This chapter explores the manipulation of discourse on Twitter at the basis of the climate lockdown conspiracy theory. By analysing a dataset of tweets supporting the existence of climate lockdowns, the chapter looks at how the categories traditionally employed to define manipulation in language… read more
2024 Of infiltrators and wild beasts: Nationalism and populism in Benjamin Netanyahu’s narrative of the borders Journal of Language and Politics: Online-First Articles | Article
This paper addresses Benjamin Netanyahu’s border discourse in the context of radical right-wing populism. It discusses how, in the speeches and statements appearing in his official government website, Netanyahu construes groups located spatially outside Israel’s borders, mainly terrorists and… read more
2023 Chapter 1. Introduction: European elections and the voices of supporters on social media Voices of Supporters: Populist parties, social media and the 2019 European elections, Koller, Veronika, Natalia Borza, Massimiliano Demata, Laura Filardo-Llamas, Anna W. Gustafsson, Susanne Kopf, Marlene Miglbauer, Valeria Reggi, Ljiljana Šarić, Charlotta Seiler Brylla and Maria Stopfner, pp. 1–16 | Chapter
2023 Chapter 2. Populism and populism studies: Theories and contributions Voices of Supporters: Populist parties, social media and the 2019 European elections, Koller, Veronika, Natalia Borza, Massimiliano Demata, Laura Filardo-Llamas, Anna W. Gustafsson, Susanne Kopf, Marlene Miglbauer, Valeria Reggi, Ljiljana Šarić, Charlotta Seiler Brylla and Maria Stopfner, pp. 17–34 | Chapter
2023 Chapter 13. The discourse of supporters for populist parties across Europe: Voices of supporters for populist parties across Europe Voices of Supporters: Populist parties, social media and the 2019 European elections, Koller, Veronika, Natalia Borza, Massimiliano Demata, Laura Filardo-Llamas, Anna W. Gustafsson, Susanne Kopf, Marlene Miglbauer, Valeria Reggi, Ljiljana Šarić, Charlotta Seiler Brylla and Maria Stopfner, pp. 280–292 | Chapter
In this final chapter, we will answer our overall research questions, comparing findings across the various contexts investigated in the preceding chapters. In doing so, we will point out what voting motivations, aspects of national identities and ways of recontextualising original posts are… read more
2023 Chapter 11. Scotland: Scottish, British or European? The Brexit referendum and the negotiation of national identity by SNP supporters on Twitter Voices of Supporters: Populist parties, social media and the 2019 European elections, Koller, Veronika, Natalia Borza, Massimiliano Demata, Laura Filardo-Llamas, Anna W. Gustafsson, Susanne Kopf, Marlene Miglbauer, Valeria Reggi, Ljiljana Šarić, Charlotta Seiler Brylla and Maria Stopfner, pp. 236–256 | Chapter
This chapter analyses the discourse and political identity of the supporters of the SNP (Scottish National Party) as expressed in their responses to the tweets published on the party’s official Twitter account (@theSNP) during the 2019 European election campaign. The chapter uncovers the way SNP… read more
2022 Chapter 1. Conspiracy theory discourses: Critical inquiries into the language of anti-science, post-trutherism, mis/disinformation and alternative media Conspiracy Theory Discourses, Demata, Massimiliano, Virginia Zorzi and Angela Zottola (eds.), pp. 1–22 | Chapter
2019 "A great and beautiful wall": Donald Trump's populist discourse on immigration Language Aggression in Public Debates on Immigration, Musolff, Andreas (ed.), pp. 101–121 | Chapter
This paper focuses on Trump’s aggressive language on immigration. By analyzing a data set made of public speeches, interviews, and statements from Trump’s official website, the paper will look at how certain lexico-grammatical and intertextual choices in Trump’s representation of immigration… read more
2019 Chapter 8. “The state of our Union is strong.” Metaphors of the nation in State of the Union addresses Metaphor, Nation and Discourse, Šarić, Ljiljana and Mateusz-Milan Stanojević (eds.), pp. 201–224 | Chapter
This chapter discusses the metaphors of the nation used by the last four US presidents (Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump) in their annual State of the Union addresses. It is argued that the two main metaphors of the nation used by the presidents, a nation is a building and a nation is a person, are key… read more
2017 “A great and beautiful wall”: Donald Trump’s populist discourse on immigration Public Debates on Immigration, Musolff, Andreas (ed.), pp. 274–294 | Article
This paper focuses on Trump’s aggressive language on immigration. By analyzing a data set made of public speeches, interviews, and statements from Trump’s official website, the paper will look at how certain lexico-grammatical and intertextual choices in Trump’s representation of immigration… read more