This edited collection draws on case studies from around the world to shed light on the sometimes contentious topic of populism. Examining diverse contexts including North America, Latin America, Europe, New Zealand, and Russia, the authors employ different approaches to populist discourse to analyse key notions in populism such as 'the people' and 'the heartland' as well as the exploitation of medium and narrative. Each of the chapters in this book explores an aspect of the way in which populism constructs a political reality, with reference to such high-profile examples as Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, the Scottish National Party, Hugo Chávez, Vladimir Putin, Barack Obama, and Winston Peters. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of both discourse analysis and political science.

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Marcia Macaulay is Associate Professor of English and Linguistics at York University, Canada. She is the author of Processing Varieties in English: An Examination of Oral and Written Speech Across Genres (1990), as well as articles on speech act theory, stylistics, and political discourse. She was also co-editor of Pragmatics and Context (2012). She has most recently published on politeness in political interviews.