Monika Brusenbauch Meislová has published a chapter in a book by Routledge
The volume “Hate Speech and Polarization in Participatory Society”, edited by Marta Pérez-Escolar and Jose Manuel Noguera-Vivo, was first published in 2021 as an ebook and in 2022 in print as a hard copy.
Monika’s chapter “Affective discursive construction of affective polarization in Brexit Britain: Opinion-Based Identities and Out-Group Differentiation” deals with the pertinent question of how Leavers and Remainers, as opinion-based groups, communicate, share and exchange their perceptions, cognitions and emotions in regard to out-groups. More specifically, drawing on the discourse-historical approach to critical discourse studies, it investigates which topics, discursive strategies and linguistic devices have been employed by British politicians to construct Leave and Remain identities in a sense of out-group antagonism(s) in contra-distinction to the given in-group. By looking at how Leavers and Remainers discursively construct the “other”, the inquiry provides an empirical example of (a part of) collective identity formation and meaning-making in the process of Brexit, and adds to the literature on growing affective polarization along Brexit lines in the UK.
The whole volume is an open access and can be accessed through this link .
