Uncertainty and Populist Rhetoric: Linguistic Analysis of Core Populist Themes

• In Event: Identities in Competition: The New Populism & European Migration

Brief Overview

I hypothesize that uncertainty is a core part of populism, and populist rhetoric shrinks uncertainty, vows to create change, and uses tribal concepts. I examine this theory using corpus linguistic analysis in the US and the UK.

Author

• Natalie J White, Brigham Young University