Do we think populists actually do something? A discursive analysis of populists as agents or patients in tweets in French, Spanish and Dutch
(2026) Multilingual corpus research. Advances and challenges — ISBN: [9789027233974], 151-173, published
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- This chapter analyses how the term populist(s) is used in comparable corpora of French, Spanish and Dutch tweets, focusing more specifically on whether populists are presented as agentive and on what kind of actions are typically attributed to populists through a combination of corpus linguistics methods, agentivity analysis, and discourse analysis. The results show that populists are presented as agents of intentional actions, but also often as patients of those actions, or in association with non-intentional actions. The latter include cases where the mere fact of labelling someone as populist is discussed and contested. In this analysis, I also develop how both linguistic and sociopolitical contextual specificities influence the representation of populist(s) in the different comparable corpora involved.
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De Cock, B. (2026). Do we think populists actually do something? A discursive analysis of populists as agents or patients in tweets in French, Spanish and Dutch. In Noelia Ramón Perez, María Pérez Blanco (ed.), Multilingual corpus research. Advances and challenges (pp. 151-173). John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.126.06de