Populism and the British Far-right:

一项批评性的话语研究将汤米·罗宾逊塑造成一个反建制的工人阶级“英雄”。汤米·罗宾逊(真名斯蒂芬饰)在新的、不断演变的英国右翼政治环境中确立了自己的主导地位。他自称是一名右翼活动家和记者，声称自己代表着“工人阶级”，并被塑造成英国权利和价值观的捍卫者，与审查制度、建制派和“英国伊斯兰化”作斗争。通过综合凯尔西(2015,2016)的心理话语和话语神话方法(DMA)和沃达克的话语历史方法(DHA)(2015)，本研究将调查情感、神话和讲故事如何有助于将汤米·罗宾逊塑造为民粹主义、反建制的工人阶级“英雄”。它将结合对媒体文本的分析和定性的半结构访谈来调查这种叙事的历史、心理和社会文化的复杂性。它将考虑亚克斯利-列侬如何使用民粹主义话语来构建和挑战英国工人阶级的价值观，以及在驳斥他的恐惧、民族主义和分裂政治时面临的挑战。它将使用有目的的抽样策略从主流媒体和替代媒体中选择一系列多模式媒体文本，对相互竞争的叙事、文本、体裁和语篇进行定性的CDS分析。一种滚雪球策略将被用来识别亚克斯利-列侬的支持者，他们认为亚克斯利-列侬是“工人阶级”，第一阶段的分析中的媒体文本将被用作探索解释的提示。这项研究旨在更好地理解复杂的心理和情感机制，这些机制有助于激进的右翼话语越来越被接受，以及汤米·罗宾逊等人物越来越受欢迎。

A Critical Discourse Study examining the psycho-discursive construction of Tommy Robinson as an anti-establishment, working class 'Hero'.'Tommy Robinson' (real name Stephen) has establishedhimself as the dominant figure in new, evolving milieu offar-right British politics. Describing himself as a right-wingactivist and journalist, he claims to represent the 'workingclass' and is stylised as a defender of British rights andvalues, fighting against censorship, the establishment,and the 'Islamification of Britain'. Through a synthesis ofKelsey's (2015, 2016) psycho-discursive and Discourse-Mythology Approach (DMA) and Wodak's Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA) (2015), this study willinvestigate how affect, myth and storytelling contribute tothe construction of 'Tommy Robinson' as a populist, antiestablishmentworking class 'hero'. It will combineanalysis of media texts with qualitative semi-structuredinterviews to investigate the historical, psychological andsocio-cultural complexities of this narrative. It willconsider how Yaxley-Lennon uses populist discourses toframe and contest British working-class values, and thechallenges faced in refuting his politics of fear,nationalism and division. It will use a purposive samplingstrategy to select a range of multimodal media texts frommainstream and alternative media, conducting aqualitative CDS analysis of competing narratives, texts,genres and discourses. A snowballing strategy will beused to identify supporters of Yaxley-Lennon that identifyas 'working class', with media texts from the first stage ofanalysis used as prompts to explore interpretations. Thestudy aims to better understand the complexpsychological and affective mechanisms that arecontributing to the growing acceptance of radical rightdiscourses and the increasing popularity of figures suchas 'Tommy Robinson'.