Scotland, Wales and press discourses amid the 2016 EU Referendum

Michael Higgins; Anthony Ridge-Newman; Fiona M. McKay

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-73682-2_3

Scotland, Wales and press discourses amid the 2016 EU Referendum

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

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Reporting the Road to Brexit
Subtitle of host publication	International Media and the EU Referendum 2016
Editors	Anthony Ridge-Newman, Fernando León-Solís, Hugh O’Donnell
Place of Publication	London
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.
Chapter	3
Pages	47-60
Number of pages	14
ISBN (Print)	9783319736815
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73682-2_3
Publication status	Published - 26 Jun 2018

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EU referendum
Scotland
Wales
discourse
news coverage

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Reporting the Road to Brexit: International Media and the EU Referendum 2016. ed. / Anthony Ridge-Newman; Fernando León-Solís; Hugh O’Donnell. London: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., 2018. p. 47-60.

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