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Reporting the Road to Brexit: The EU Referendum and the Media Read chapter Read first chapter

2018 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

3. Scotland, Wales and Press Discourses Amid the 2016 EU Referendum

Authors : Michael Higgins, Anthony Ridge-Newman, Fiona M. McKay

Published in: Reporting the Road to Brexit

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

This chapter is concerned with establishing and analysing the discourses that shaped the coverage of the 2016 EU referendum in a selection of Scottish and Welsh newspapers. The chapter looks at the Scottish editions of the Daily Express and Daily Mail, as well as the Herald and the Daily Record. The Welsh papers examined are the Western Mail/Wales on Sunday, the Daily Post and the Evening Post. Using Lexis Nexis the chapter engages in a search for key terms across a three month sample of coverage, followed by a critical discourse analysis of how these are used. Discourses of danger and fear are found to be prominent themes across both samples, mirroring public discourse more broadly.

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Metadata
Title
Scotland, Wales and Press Discourses Amid the 2016 EU Referendum
Authors
Michael Higgins
Anthony Ridge-Newman
Fiona M. McKay
Copyright Year
2018
Book
Reporting the Road to Brexit

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-73681-5

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-73682-2

Copyright Year: 2018

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73682-2_3