In Britain, pro-Brexit discourses have tended to promote the re-imagination of a global orientation and identity for Britain beyond Europe. For Brexit’s supporters, and in particular among them English Conservatives, Britain just doesn’t belong in Europe. Rather, they claim, it belongs in closer ties with its former colonies in the wider English-speaking world, with which it shares much more in common than it does with its European neighbours.
In this talk, researcher in political language and communication Mark Ølholm Eaton will discuss his research into various linguistic features, including conceptual metaphor and references to history and historical analogy, of a political myth named Global Britain. This political myth frames leaving the European Union as an opportunity for Britain to reclaim its proper (and even, it is claimed, natural) place as an influential global actor.
He will also discuss the extent to which Brexit has (and in the future may) unleash Britain’s inherent globality. On the other hand, are critics correct in their description of Global Britain as an unrealistic and even harmful fantasy?
Afholdt d.17. marts 2022
Målgruppe: Forelæsningen henvender sig primært til undervisningen i engelsk og historie.
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