Political Communication

Mirko A. Demasi is a lecturer in psychology at York St John University, UK. His current research interest is in the study of political debates on the European Union in the context of Brexit, constructions of truth and factuality as rhetorical and moral concerns, contested political discourse and the study of racist discourse in Finland and beyond.Shani Burke is a senior lecturer in psychology at Teesside University, UK. Her research interests are applying discursive psychology to Islamophobic and far-right discourse, focusing on how potentially prejudicial arguments are presented as ‘reasonable’. Her work has been published in a range of journals, such as Discourse and Society and the Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology. Cristian Tileagă is Reader in Social Psychology in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Loughborough University, UK. He has written extensively on discursive psychology, prejudice and discrimination, collective memory, and interdisciplinarity. He is the author of a number of books, including Discursive Psychology: Classic and Contemporary Issues (2015, with Elizabeth Stokoe) and The Nature of Prejudice: Society, Discrimination and Moral Exclusion (2016).

• 1. The Discursive Psychology of Political Communication.- Part 1. Political Communication of Contentious Politics.- 2. Accusations and Denials of Racism in Dialogical Context.- 3. Lay Rhetoric on Brexit.- 4. Extending the Boundaries of Political Communication: How Ideology can be Examined in Super-rich Television Documentaries using Discursive Psychology.- 5. A Multimodal Discourse Analysis of ‘Brexit’: Flagging the Nation in Political Cartoons; Henry W. Lennon, Laura Kilby.- Part 2. Political Communication, Discourse, and New Media.- 6. The Discourse of Social Movements: Online Mobilising Practices for Collective Action.- 7. Analysing Multimodal Communication and Persuasion in Populist Radical Right Political Blogs.- 8. “This Country Will be Big Racist One Day”: Extreme Prejudice as Reasoned Discourse in Face-to-Face Interactions.- Part 3: Discursive Psychology, Discourse, and Social Problems.- 9. Presenting Support for Refugees as Naivety: Responses to Positive Media Reports about Refugees.- 10. Consensual Politics and Pragmatism in Parliamentary Discourse on the ‘Refugee Issue’.- 11. The Unsaid as Expressive and Repressive Political Communication: Examining Slippery Talk about Paid Domestic Labour in Post-apartheid South Africa.