{"product_id":"constructing-brexit-britain-tamsin-parnell-9781350437258","title":"Constructing Brexit Britain: A Corpus-Assisted Approach to National Identity Discourse","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCombining corpus linguistics, critical discourse analysis, and a discourse analysis of narratives, this book considers one aspect of the Brexit process: the language that journalists, politicians and individuals used to write and talk about what it means to be British and European around the time of Brexit.\u003c\/b\u003e It reveals a trajectory towards a discourse of national division in Brexit Britain in three datasets: pro-Brexit newspaper articles, UK Government documents, and interviews with individual citizens. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDemonstrating the important role that (supra-)national identity discourses played in discussions about Brexit, the book traces a shift towards a representation of Brexit Britain as divided and in decline at a time when the construction of a collective identity is likely to be paramount. The emerging representation is a direct contradiction of the great global trading nation narrative that the Vote Leave campaigners - and later the UK Government - promised, questioning the discursive success of the Global Britain project. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eConstructing Brexit Britain\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates that the transition from pre- to post-Brexit Britain was a crucial period of destabilisation for institutional and lay national identity narratives. It also illustrates that the coming years are likely to be just as important, as the UK forges its post-Brexit place in the world amid declining levels of trust in politicians, calls for a second Scottish membership referendum, the COVID-19 pandemic, and a cost of living crisis.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tamsin Parnell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350437255\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350437258\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/22\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.76lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.51d","brand":"Tamsin Parnell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48484970365183,"sku":"9781350437258","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3d5984f7-83cc-4a66-9e1f-d02cbe42b159.jpg?v=1778047046","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/constructing-brexit-britain-tamsin-parnell-9781350437258","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}