BREXIT FRAMING IN BRITISH MEDIA
BREXIT FRAMING IN BRITISH MEDIA

Summary/Abstract: 2019 brings about fiery debates and endless questions about the United Kingdom‘s current and futurerelation to the European Union. An important aspect is whether the United Kingdom should or should notorganise another national referendum regarding membership in the European Union. It is, nevertheless,equally important to identify the causes and reasons that led to the vote in favour of Leave in the 2016referendum, widely known as Brexit. It is contended here that the British media played an important rolein shaping the citizens‘ options, imposing themselves as actors in the construction of a sociologicalphenomenon with serious effects and consequences. Combining the linguistic and cultural perspectives,with scientific tools from the domain of Discourse Analysis, this paper will look into several relevant proand anti-Brexit views, as presented by important British newspapers to the wide public, tracing theirarguments and the way in which manipulation was achieved on both Leave and Remain sides.

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