Get Brexit Done: A Comparative Analysis of the Political Discourse during this Process

  1. Aroa Orrequia Barea 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Cádiz
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    Universidad de Cádiz

    Cádiz, España

    ROR https://ror.org/04mxxkb11

Journal:
Publicaciones de la Asociación Argentina de Humanidades Digitales (PublicAAHD)

ISSN: 2718-7470

Year of publication: 2020

Volume: 1

Issue: 1

Type: Article

DOI: 10.24215/27187470E001 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen access editor

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Abstract

The Brexit process started on 23rd June 2016 when a referendum was held to vote whether the UK was leaving the EU or not. However, it did not become a reality until 31st January 2020, when the UK officially left the EU. Many debates have taken place to reach this agreement between the most influential politicians in the country. The main objective of this paper is to analyse the political discourse of the two main protagonists of this process: Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, and Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the opposition. The analysis is twofold: on the one hand, a linguistic analysis was carried out to compare the word choice of each politician; on the other, Sentiment Analysis techniques were applied to explore the general polarity of the political discourse.

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