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Acknowledgements

List of contributors

INTRODUCTION: UNRAVELLING POPULIST DISCOURSE

Part I: POPULISM, POLITICS AND COMMUNICATION

1 - The Politics of Authenticity in Populist Discourse: rhetorical analysis of a parliamentary speech by Podemos

Enrique Arroyas Langa and Victoria Fernández Ilundain

2 - The rising of populist parties in Italy: techno-populism between neo-liberalism and direct democracy

Emiliana De Blasio and Michele Sorice

3 - Rewriting the news: the amphibious relationship between populist Podemos and print media in Spain

Ismael Ibáñez-Rosales

4 - Populism and the media factor: a comparative perspective on the Portuguese presidential candidates

Paula do Espírito Santo and Rita Figueiras

5 - Populist discourse in the 21st century: the definition of otherness on Twitter in the cases of Spain, Bolivia and Venezuela

Javier Garcia-Marín and Óscar G. Luengo

Part II: A CORPUS-BASED DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF POPULISM

6 - Us vs. them: polarisation and populist discourses in the online electoral campaign in Spain

Ana Ruiz-Sánchez and Manuel Alcántara-Plá

7 - Imagining the people in UKIP and Labour

Ruth Breeze

8 - For the many, not the few: a transitivity analysis of Labour's 2017 manifesto as a driving force for promoting a populist Britain

Leanne Bartley

9 - Little old UK voting Brexit and some Austrian friends: a corpus-driven analysis of the 2016 UK right-wing tabloid discourse

Pascual Pérez-Paredes

10 - Disability in the populist press: An investigation of British tabloids

Maria Cristina Nisco

11 - Speculations about the future: populism and climate change in news discourse

Katherine E. Russo

Part III: RHETORIC, CRITICAL DISCOUSE ANALYSIS AND POPULISM

12 - Populist metaphorical utterances

John Keating and Belén Soria

13 - Populismus and aestheticisation in Nazi rhetoric

Christina Holgado-Sáez and Leopoldo La Rubia-Prado

14 - Donald Trump is a Conqueror: how the cognitive analysis of Trump's discourse reveals his worldview

Heather McCallum-Bayliss

15 - Left-wing populist discourses in the Greek press

Themis Kaniklidou

16 - New politics and the voice of the people. A study of populist language in Spanish political discourse: the case of Podemos

Francisco José Sánchez García

17 - Metaphors portraying right-wing politician Geert Wilders in Dutch political cartoons

Charles Forceville and Nataša van de Laar

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