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Gesture and legitimation in the anti-immigration discourse of Nigel Farage
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Abstract:
Critical discourse analysis (CDA) increasingly recognises the role played by multiple semiotic modes in the discursive construction of social identities and inequalities. One embodied mode that has not been subject to any systematic analysis within CDA is gesture. An area where gesture has been extensively studied, and where it is shown to bear significant semiotic load in multimodal utterances, is in cognitive linguistics. Here, we use insights from cognitive linguistics to provide a detailed qualitative analysis of gestures in a specific discursive context – the anti-immigration discourse of Nigel Farage. We describe the gestures that accompany a range of rhetorical tropes typical of anti-immigration discourses and critically analyse their role, alongside speech, in communicating prejudice and legitimating discriminatory action. Our analysis suggests that gesture is an important part of political discourse which is worthy of further investigation in future CDA research.
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URL: https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/159591/
https://doi.org/10.1177/09579265211048560
https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/159591/1/Gesture_and_Legitimation_Pre_proof.pdf
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What Can Cognitive Linguistics Tell Us about Language-Image Relations?:A Multidimensional Approach to Intersemiotic Convergence in Multimodal Text
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“28 Palestinians Die”:A Cognitive Grammar Analysis of Mystification in Press Coverage of State Violence on the Gaza Border.
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Cognitive Linguistic Approaches to Text and Discourse:From Poetics to Politics
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Metaphorical descriptions of pain on a Trigeminal Neuralgia Forum:Pushing the Boundaries of Cognitive Linguistics
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A nation divided:Metaphors and scenarios in the media coverage of the 2016 British EU referendum
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Spatial properties of ACTION verb semantics:Experimental evidence for image schema orientation in transitive versus reciprocal verbs and its implications for ideology
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Event-frames affect blame assignment and perception of aggression in discourse on political protests:an experimental case study in critical discourse analysis
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'Riots engulfed the city':an experimental study investigating the legitimating effects of fire metaphors in discourses of disorder
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Cognitive linguistic critical discourse studies:connecting language and image
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Metaphor and intertextuality in media framings of the (1984-85) British Miners' Strike:a multimodal analysis
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The visual basis of linguistic meaning and its implications for critical discourse analysis:integrating cognitive linguistic and multimodal methods
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Viewpoint in linguistic discourse:space and evaluation in news reports of political protests
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