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8. The 2016 EU Referendum in Gibraltar: Opinion Articles in Gibraltarian News

Author : Ángela Alameda Hernández

Published in: Reporting the Road to Brexit

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

The present chapter offers an outside perspective on the study of the 2016 EU referendum as it focuses on one of Britain’s overseas territories, Gibraltar. The study uses critical discourse analysis (CDA), aiming to provide detailed social critique based on linguistic evidence. The textual corpus consists of opinion articles drawn from Gibraltarian newspapers in the days surrounding the referendum. In Gibraltar, the EU referendum event had significant impact because it posed a domestic conundrum. It was discursively constructed as the biggest threat to the status that this community had painfully achieved through its history. To face this challenge, appeals to continuity, unity and Britishness were recurrent in the opinion articles analysed. Moreover, references to Spain and the special threat it represented were equally recurrent.

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Title: The 2016 EU Referendum in Gibraltar: Opinion Articles in Gibraltarian News
Author: Ángela Alameda Hernández
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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_8