Book reviews: Encarnación Hidalgo-Tenorio, Miguel-Ángel Benítez-Castro and Francesca De Cesare (eds), Populist Discourse. Critical Approaches to Contemporary Politics

Abstract

investigation of crisis discourses. Both quantitative and qualitative are applied in these analyses. Examples of qualitative studies include case studies, psychometric testing, interviews, narrative studies, and social media entries. Examples of quantitative studies can be found in the use of linguistic corpora and mathematical methods. Despite this richness, the definition of crisis discourse is not entirely clear; for example, no explanation is offered of why organizational, political, and personal crises are selected as the three main types of crisis discourses. In particular, the health crises discussed throughout Chapters 7–10 seem only a specific case of the much broader concept of ‘personal crisis’. Nevertheless, the book offers thought-provoking findings on how metaphors and frames are utilized by social agents in constructing crisis processes in a range of complex sociocultural situations. It will serve as an important reference for readers interested in crisis management and communication, discourse analysis, and cognitive linguistics.