Do we think populists actually do something? A discursive analysis of populists as agents or patients in French, Spanish and Belgian tweets

In this presentation, I will look into how the term populists is used in a comparable corpus of French, Spanish and Dutch tweets. This research is part of the broader project Tracking the uses of populism in media and political discourse (TrUMPo) (https://www.discourseonpopulism-uclouvain.com/), which adopts an interdisciplinary perspective to the analysis of discourse on populism (as opposed to discourse by politicians considered as populists). The data collected concern Spain, France and Belgium (both the French-speaking and Dutch-speaking parts) during 2019, a year of European and local ele... Mehr ...