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Not now! Construction of the “now-is-not-the-time” discourse of Theresa May and Boris Johnson vis-à-vis the second Scottish independence referendum

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BRUSENBAUCH MEISLOVÁ Monika

Rok publikování 2023
Druh Článek v odborném periodiku
Časopis / Zdroj British Politics
Fakulta / Pracoviště MU

Fakulta sociálních studií

Citace
www https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41293-022-00214-x
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41293-022-00214-x
Klíčová slova Scottish independence; Second referendum; Theresa May; Boris Johnson; Discourse analysis; Discourse of delay
Přiložené soubory
Popis Between 2016 and 2021, in response to calls for a second Scottish independence referendum, two British Prime Ministers—Theresa May and Boris Johnson—adopted a holding position, at the core of which was the “now-is-not-the-time” argumentative scheme. As a particular expression of strategic ambiguity, this delay discourse was intended to fulfil a specific political function: to postpone the second plebiscite sine die. As such, it marked a stark difference to the 2014 Scottish referendum campaign and provided the anti-independence camp with a new rhetorical resource. Having adopted the general orientation of the Discourse-Historical Approach to discourse analysis, and working with a dataset of May’s and Johnson’s public utterances on the second Scottish referendum, this article investigates how exactly this discourse of referendum delay was constructed in prime ministerial rhetoric. It concludes that some differences notwithstanding, the two PMs managed to create a largely consistent argumentative scheme.
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