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A #THREAD about Brexit, Britain, national identity, & the divisive role of the UK press.

It's a summary of the (paywalled) 2022 article: 'Humiliating & dividing the nation in the British pro-Brexit press: a corpus-assisted analysis', by Tamsin Parnell.

…w-tandfonline-com.hallam.idm.oclc.org/doi/full/10.10…
The nation is an imagined community (Anderson), ‘a mental [& political] construct that is real only insofar as individuals believe in & identify with it’ (Wenzl, 2020). The imagined national community is constructed, negotiated, & renegotiated through discourse (Billig, 1995).
By discourse, Parnell means ‘linguistic & non-linguistic social practices & ideological assumptions’. National discourse is underpinned by a sense of timelessness, based on the collective memory of a shared history, elaboration of a shared present & vision of a collective future.
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