Samuel Bennett
List of John Benjamins publications for which Samuel Bennett plays a role.
Journal
ISSN 1569-2159 | E-ISSN 1569-9862
Title
(De)legitimising EUrope in times of crisis
Edited by Franco Zappettini and Samuel Bennett
Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 21:2 (2022) v, 199 pp.
Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
2022 Mythopoetic legitimation and the recontextualisation of Europe’s foundational myth (De)legitimising EUrope in times of crisis, Zappettini, Franco and Samuel Bennett (eds.), pp. 370–389 | Article
Using the example of the European Union’s foundational myth that post-war cooperation led to peace, in this paper I attempt to develop both a theory of mythopoetic legitimation and an analytical framework for its analysis. I start from the position that mythopoesis is a form of legitimation… read more
2022 Reimagining Europe and its (dis)integration: (De)legitimising the EU’s project in times of crisis (De)legitimising EUrope in times of crisis, Zappettini, Franco and Samuel Bennett (eds.), pp. 191–207 | Article
In this article we introduce our special issue of the Journal of Language & Politics on the (de)legitimisation of Europe. We start by outlining the rationale and research that led us to the special issue. In Section 2 we set out the contextual framing of the contributions, i.e., the crisis of… read more
2019 Chapter 9. Standing up for ‘real people’: UKIP, the Brexit, and discursive strategies on Twitter Imagining the Peoples of Europe: Populist discourses across the political spectrum, Zienkowski, Jan and Ruth Breeze (eds.), pp. 229–256 | Chapter
Right wing populism has always been exclusionary in nature and relies on classic positive in-group/negative out-group constructions (van Dijk 1998). This chapter investigates how the UK Independence Party (UKIP) discursively constructed ‘the people’ during the 2016 ‘Brexit’ referendum campaign. It… read more
2017 Whose line is it anyway? The diffusion of discursive frames in Pride movements of the South Journal of Language and Politics 16:3, pp. 345–366 | Article
Pride marches are increasingly common in the 'global South' and can be seen as signs of progress towards greater social acceptance of sexual minorities. Such movements often appropriate and mimic semiotic symbols and discursive frames visible in Pride movements in countries in the North, such as… read more
