Abstract
This chapter takes a closer look at manipulative discursive strategies through the empirical study of the manipulative potential of propositional and non-propositional lexical items in general, and populist discursive strategies, in particular. The aim is to identify populist discursive strategies used by government and opposition parties in the course of parliamentary debates and to validate the findings of Furkó (Imagining the Peoples of Europe: Political Discourses Across the Political Spectrum. John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 2019), whose research focused on parliamentary speeches relating to (anti-)immigration and the immigration quota referendum of 2016.
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Népszabadság Online (2006).
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Népszabadság Online (2007).
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The asterisk is used to tone down the profanity of the original lexical item.
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“…[a beszéd] persze nem állja ki a nyilvánosság próbáját úgy, ahogyan ott, nem a nyilvánosságnak szánt módon elhangzott”. “[the speech] and the way it was formulated was, naturally, not suitable or intended for wider publicity” (ibid.).
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The transcripts of parliamentary speeches are available and searchable at www.parlament.hu, the search engine provides filters for date as well as party affiliation of the speaker.
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AntConc 3.4.4w was used as a concordancing programme as well as keyness analyser. For more information on keyness cf. http://www.laurenceanthony.net/software/antconc/.
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Furkó, P.B. (2020). Discourse Markers from a Critical Perspective: A Case Study of Discourse Markers in Parliamentary Speeches. In: Discourse Markers and Beyond. Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37763-2_4
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