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Ruth Breeze is Associate Professor of English at the University of Navarra, Spain, and PI of the GradUN Research Group in the Instituto Cultura y Sociedad. Her research focuses on discourse analysis, particularly legal, political and media discourse, as well as corpus linguistics and pragmatics. Ana M. Fernndez Vallejo is Associate Professor at the University of Navarra, Spain, where she teaches Spanish for Academic and Professional Communication. Her recent research centres on language and emotion in professional and political settings throughout digital media, and CSR discourse in digital media. Table of Contents Introduction: Politics, populism, media Ruth Breeze and Ana M. Fernndez Vallejo Section 1: Politicians across Modes and Media Trumpian tweets and populist politics: A corpus-assisted discourse analytical study Aditi Bhatia and Andrew S. Ross Populism and the digital media: A necessarily symbiotic relationship? Insights from the case of Syriza Giorgos Venizelos Achieving results for the American people. A corpus-assisted CDA of the White House website under Trump’s presidency Antonella Napolitano Talking about populists in Twitter: Politicians’ linguistic behaviour in comments about populists in Germany and Austria Miguel Ayerbe Linares #AmericaFirst vs #primagliitaliani: A Corpus-Assisted CDA of Trump’s and Salvini’s Twitter Communications Maria Cristina Aiezza The populist contagion. The influence of populist discourses on the political communication of traditional parties in Romania. Daniela Roventa-Frumusani and Adriana Stefanel Populism and popularity in Imran Khan’s 2018 election speeches Saqlain Hassan Section 2: People, Politics and Politicians across Modes and Media The discursive construction of Trump’s charisma on Twitter and Reddit Aline Schmidt “You are not one of us!”: Online responses to the premier’s populist discourse in Jordan Muhammad A. Badarneh “Happy to be insulted”: Offensive language in online discussions of UK radical politics Ruth Breeze Politicizing collective identities: Online news commentaries in the Arab Spring Nahla Nadeem Social networks and the construction of political culture: Where are we looking from? Vctor A. Melndez Notes on Contributors
