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Communicating COVID-19: Accountability and ‘British Common Sense’

Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines, 2023
In this paper, we conduct a discursive psychological analysis of coronavirus briefings where the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, mentions ‘common sense’ as means to instruct British people how to behave during the pandemic.
Shani Burke, Mirko A. Demasi
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Was Boris Johnson justified in using John Stuart Mill to make the case for Brexit? [PDF]

, 2018
Boris Johnson invoked John Stuart Mill in a recent speech, arguing that Mill's thinking about the importance of the nation state underpinned the case for Brexit.
Morricone, Corrado
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Brexit and the 2019 General Election

Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2022
The article examines two different interpretations of the British general election in 2019. One claims that electoral behaviour was largely driven by views about whether the UK should deliver on the vote of the 2016 referendum to leave the EU.
Dennis Kavanagh
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Boris Johnson should be advocating for all of London rather than on behalf of the financial services industry [PDF]

, 2014
Last week Jenny Jones published a report highlighting evidence that Boris Johnson is very much the Bankers’ Mayor. Here she argues that instead of exclusively supporting one industry, he needs do more to advocate on behalf of all 8 million constituents ...
Jones, Jenny
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The study of metaphor as part of Critical Discourse Analysis [PDF]

, 2012
This article discusses how the study of metaphoric and more generally, figurative language use contributes to critical discourse analysis (CDA). It shows how cognitive linguists’ recognition of metaphor as a fundamental means of concept- and argument ...
Andreas Musolff, Barcelona A., Black M., Bosmajian H., Cameron L., Carver T., Charteris-Black J., Chilton P., Fairclough N., Fauconnier G., Goatly A., Grice P., Hawkins B., Johnson M., Kövecses Z., Kövecses Z., Lakoff G., Lakoff G., Lakoff G., Lakoff G., Leezenberg M., Lovejoy A. O., Maalej Z., Mahon J. E., Musolff A., Musolff A., Panther K.-U., Radden G., Rash F., Reisigl M., Richards I. A., Richardson J. E., Ricoeur P., Semino E., Sontag S., Sperber D., Steen G., Tendahl M., Wodak R., Wodak R., Yu N.   +40 more
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Centralised by Design: Anglocentric Constitutionalism, Accountability and the Failure of English Devolution

The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 189-198, January/March 2025.
Abstract The Labour manifesto in this year's election implied a radical restructuring of the UK state, the way in which England is governed and in relations across the United Kingdom. The aim of making English devolution the ‘default option’ is set against fifty years of unsuccessful and partial devolution initiatives which have failed to reverse the ...
John Denham, Janice Morphet
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Symbiotic modeling: Linguistic Anthropology and the promise of chiasmus [PDF]

, 2016
Reflexive observations and observations of reflexivity: such agendas are by now standard practice in anthropology. Dynamic feedback loops between self and other, cause and effect, represented and representamen may no longer seem surprising ...
Bartoli Cannada, Bollig Ben, Burke Kenneth, Carrithers Michael, Creation Mythical, Deely John, Fauconnier Gilles, Fernandez James W., Gudeman Stephen, Hariman Robert, Hariman Robert, Herzfeld Michael, Jamin Pelkey, Lewis E. Douglas, Lissner Patricia Anne, Lévi-Strauss Claude, Maranda Pierre, Merleau-Ponty Maurice, Meyer Christian, Meyer Christian, Mosko Mark S., Oesterreich Peter L., Paul Anthony, Peirce Charles Sanders, Rumsey Alan, Salazar Philippe-Joseph, Shapiro Michael, Shaw Marvin, Strecker Ivo, Strecker Ivo, Strecker Ivo, Strecker Ivo, Thomas-Fogiel Isabelle, Tyler Stephen, Tyler Stephen, Usher Phillip John, Vanier Alain, Varela Francisco J., Washburn Dorothy K., Washburn Dorothy K., Wiseman Boris, Wiseman Boris, Wiseman Boris, Wiseman Boris, Wiseman Boris   +44 more
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Playing the System: Electoral Bias in the 2024 UK General Election

The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 65-73, January/March 2025.
Abstract The UK's 2024 general election was the least proportional of modern times. Labour's substantial parliamentary majority rested on the smallest ever winning party vote share. The Conservatives, meanwhile, suffered one of their worst ever results.
Charles Pattie, David Cutts
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The Human Rights Act 1998: No Future?

Revue LISA
This contribution focuses on the threats weighing on the Human Rights Act 1998 under the Conservative government of Boris Johnson, in light of previous criticisms coming from political actors and growing questioning from the judiciary.
Peggy Ducoulombier
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The EU referendum saw the return of class-prediction voting (with a vengeance) [PDF]

, 2016
The repercussions of the UK’s decision to abandon its membership of the European Union keep coming, with Boris Johnson seemingly heading for Downing Street.
Wyburn-Powell, Alun
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