講座名稱：Voices of Supporters: Social media discourses around the European elections

講座人：Veronika Kolloer 教授

講座時間：9月19日16:00-17:30

地點：南校區(qū)信遠II區(qū)424會議室

講座人介紹：

Veronika Koller是英國蘭卡斯特大學話語研究方向教授，在政治話語、商業(yè)和健康話語以及語言和性別方面研究成果豐碩。隱喻是她的研究的重點方向。她發(fā)表SSCI期刊論文100余篇，出版專著多部。Veronika是Metaphor and Symbol期刊的副主編，擔任Discourse and Society 和Critical Discourse Studies期刊編委，擔任劍橋大學出版社批評話語研究系列叢書的編輯。

講座內容：

Taking the 2019 and 2024 European elections as case studies, I will outline how supporters in different countries construct identities and voting motivations on social media. The study comprises a range of methods to investigate data from different social media platforms, defining populism as a political strategy and/or practice, realised in discourse, that is based on a dichotomy between “the people”, who are unified by their will, and an out-group whose actions are not in the interest of the people, with a leader safeguarding the interests of the people against the out-group. The talk identifies what motivates people to vote for populist parties, what role national identities and values play in those motivations, and how the social media postings of populist parties are recontextualised in supporters’ comments to serve as a voting motivation. A particular focus will be on how supporters express or seek to evoke emotions in and through discourse. The talk will be rounded off by discussing what vistas research into European political discourse opens for combining discourse analysis and area studies.

主辦單位：外國語學院