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  1. Corpus-assisted analysis of legitimation strategies in government social media communication.Ruth Page & Sten Hansson - 2022 - Discourse and Communication 16 (5):551-571.
    When governments introduce controversial policies that many citizens disapprove of, officeholders increasingly use discursive legitimation strategies in their public communication to ward off blame. In this paper, we contribute to the study of blame avoidance in government social media communication by exploring how corpus-assisted discourse analysis helps to identify three types of common legitimations: self-defensive appeals to personal authority of policymakers, impersonal authority of rules or documents and goals or effects of policies. We use a specialised corpus of tweets by (...)
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  • ‘The jobs all go to foreigners’: a critical discourse analysis of the Labour Party's ‘left-wing’ case for immigration controls.David Bates - 2023 - Critical Discourse Studies 20 (2):183-199.
    This paper critically examines how senior figures in the UK Labour Party and wider labour movement discussed the topic of immigration in the immediate aftermath of the UK's vote to leave the European Union in 2016. Influenced by the Discourse Historical Approach, the paper is based on an analysis of 86 public interventions by Labour figures, over a 6-month period, delivered in speeches, articles and essays. The paper examines argumentative strategies adopted by Labour figures – including Members of Parliament, advisors (...)
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  • Legitimation in government social media communication: the case of the Brexit department.Sten Hansson & Ruth Page - 2023 - Critical Discourse Studies 20 (4):361-378.
    When governments introduce controversial policies or face a risk of policy failure, officeholders try to avoid blame and justify their decisions by using various legitimation strategies. This paper focuses on the ways in which legitimations are expressed in government social media communication, using the Twitter posts of the British government’s Brexit department as an example. We show how governments may seek legitimacy by appealing to (1) the personal authority of individual policymakers, (2) the collective authority of (political) organisations, (3) the (...)
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  • The critical juncture of Brexit in media & political discourses: from national-populist imaginary to cross-national social and political crisis.Franco Zappettini & Michał Krzyżanowski - 2019 - Critical Discourse Studies 16 (4):381-388.
    Volume 16, Issue 4, September 2019, Page 381-388.
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