Massimiliano Demata

List of John Benjamins publications for which Massimiliano Demata plays a role.

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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

Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics

Conspiracy Theory Discourses

Edited by Massimiliano Demata, Virginia Zorzi and Angela Zottola

Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
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
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
Borza, Natalia, Massimiliano Demata, Laura Filardo-Llamas, Anna W. Gustafsson, Veronika Koller, Susanne Kopf, Marlene Miglbauer, Valeria Reggi, Ljiljana Šarić, Charlotta Seiler Brylla and Maria Stopfner 2023 Chapter 1. Introduction: European elections and the voices of supporters on social mediaVoices 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
Borza, Natalia, Massimiliano Demata, Laura Filardo-Llamas, Anna W. Gustafsson, Veronika Koller, Susanne Kopf, Marlene Miglbauer, Valeria Reggi, Ljiljana Šarić, Charlotta Seiler Brylla and Maria Stopfner 2023 Chapter 2. Populism and populism studies: Theories and contributionsVoices 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
Borza, Natalia, Massimiliano Demata, Laura Filardo-Llamas, Anna W. Gustafsson, Veronika Koller, Susanne Kopf, Marlene Miglbauer, Valeria Reggi, Ljiljana Šarić, Charlotta Seiler Brylla and Maria Stopfner 2023 Chapter 13. The discourse of supporters for populist parties across Europe: Voices of supporters for populist parties across EuropeVoices 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
Demata, Massimiliano 2023 Chapter 11. Scotland: Scottish, British or European? The Brexit referendum and the negotiation of national identity by SNP supporters on TwitterVoices 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
Demata, Massimiliano, Virginia Zorzi and Angela Zottola 2022 Chapter 1. Conspiracy theory discourses: Critical inquiries into the language of anti-science, post-trutherism, mis/disinformation and alternative mediaConspiracy Theory Discourses, Demata, Massimiliano, Virginia Zorzi and Angela Zottola (eds.), pp. 1–22 | 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
Demata, Massimiliano 2019 Chapter 8. “The state of our Union is strong.” Metaphors of the nation in State of the Union addressesMetaphor, 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
Demata, Massimiliano 2017 “A great and beautiful wall”: Donald Trump’s populist discourse on immigrationPublic 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