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A Corpus Study of Brexit Political Discourse: Exploring Modality through Lexical Modals
Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American StudiesThis paper aims to analyse the lexical modals used in the political speeches given by Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn during the final months of the Brexit process.
Encarnación Almazán Ruiz +1 more
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What Could ‘Manchesterism’ Mean?: Infrastructural Citizenship for Civic Renewal
IPPR Progressive Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Local infrastrucutre is a lens through which citizens materially experience the actions of the state. Drawing on the concept of 'infrastructural citizenship', this paper explores how shared spaces can shift from sources of alienation to catalysts for trust.
Beth Kitson, Owen Garling
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Boris Johnson: the moral case for government resignations in July 2022. [PDF]
Br Politics, 2023 Walker R.
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Cost of Living Populism: A Discussion
IPPR Progressive Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Could ‘cost of living populism’ offer a way forward for the left? Chris Bick of IPPR sat down with Persuasion UK's Steve Akehurst, the New Statesman's Anoosh Chakelian, and IPPR's Sam Alvis to talk through the politics of affordability. The discussion spans what voters actually mean when they name the cost of living as their top concern, the ...
Sam Alvis +3 more
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Referential Indeterminacy and De Re Thoughts
Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Referential indeterminacy may seem to leave little room for de re or singular thoughts about ordinary objects. I argue that this impression is misleading. We can direct our thoughts at particular objects, even though there is no fact of the matter as to which objects are referred to by the singular terms purporting to stand for them.
Bahram Assadian
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Genere, linguaggio e pregiudizio: Sessismo implicito nel discorso politico in lingua inglese
Testo & Senso, 2021 Mentre il pregiudizio linguistico è inteso comunemente come una questione che riguarda individui o gruppi sociali e il loro modo di parlare, possiamo anche vederlo come un linguaggio dannoso usato riguardo alcuni individui o gruppi sociali.
Giulia Magazzù
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Not <i>now</i>! Construction of the "now-is-not-the-time" discourse of Theresa May and Boris Johnson vis-à-vis the second Scottish independence referendum. [PDF]
Br Politics, 2022 Brusenbauch Meislová M.
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Social Effects of the Vote of the Majority: An Experiment on the Brexit‐Vote
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The 2016 EU referendum result was widely perceived as a statement against immigration. This paper investigates whether information about majority voting outcomes influences attitudes towards immigrants. Using a survey experiment conducted in England in 2017–2018, we randomly exposed participants to truthful information indicating that local ...
Fernanda Leite Lopez de Leon +1 more
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Bullshitters, Liars and Bad Teachers: The Scope of Epistemic Malevolence
Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The aim of this paper is two‐fold. We argue against the received conception of epistemic malevolence and give a broader characterisation that, we argue, captures its real scope. We tackle the current notion of epistemic malevolence (EM) on three fronts. We claim that this notion fails to capture cases of EM that are (i) not knowledge directed (
Sam Dickson +2 more
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Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Counterpart theories are powerful thanks to their flexibility: counterpart relations are not symmetrical or transitive, and one can apply more than one counterpart relation to one object. This is used to analyze metaphysical puzzles, but it also gives rise to an objection: this flexibility forces one to deny that the phenomena analyzed using ...
Florian Gatignon
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