Hunt2025

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Hunt2025
BibType ARTICLE
Key Hunt2025
Author(s) Alexander R Hunt, Mirko A Demasi
Title ‘Which would be more democratic? Allowing them the opportunity to change their mind or pressing on regardless’: A discursive psychological study of arguments for and against calls for a second Brexit referendum
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Tag(s) Discursive Psychology, Politics, Parlamentary debates, Arguments, Brexit, Democracy, Political communication, Political discourse
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Volume 36
Number 1
Pages 60–77
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DOI 10.1177/09579265241257629
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Abstract

Parliamentary debates are beneficial political environments to study using discourse analysis and discursive psychology. However, there is limited discursive psychological research analysing arguments for and against the possibility of a second referendum concerning the UK’s EU membership status. We collected our data by transcribing a parliamentary debate where politicians discussed a second referendum and analysed it using a discursive psychological framework. Whether they supported leave or remain, politicians discredit their opposing position for supposedly lacking democratic values. As such, politicians portrayed their stances on Brexit as a requirement to uphold democratic principles. The main implication of the analysis demonstrated that politicians defined democracy depending on the positions they took regarding calls for a second Brexit referendum. The present study contributes to the growing discursive literature on Brexit discourse by showing how the meaning of democracy is contested and used as a tool to manage accountability.

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Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd