De Montfort University, Leicester, UK.
Br J Soc Psychol. 2021 Jul;60(3):1012-1026. doi: 10.1111/bjso.12432. Epub 2020 Dec 23.
While attention has been given to understanding support for the far-right, there is a lack of focus on the way in which a threat of the far-right can be used for political ends. This paper addresses this using the UK Brexit debate as an illustration. The question therefore is: What is talk about the far-right used to do in discussions about Brexit? A discursive psychological approach addresses a sample of newspaper reports containing both 'Far-Right' and 'Brexit', from the first quarter of 2019 (n = 45). The analysis identifies a range of uses of talk about the far-right: (1) An opponent of Brexit is called a Nazi by pro-Brexit protesters, who are labelled far-right; (2) A lack of Brexit is presented as fuel for the far-right; (3) Remain supporters reject the idea that a lack of Brexit fuels the far-right; (4) A link with the far-right is rejected by a prominent Brexit supporter; and (5) Support for Brexit is again linked with the far-right. The far-right can be used as a strategic tool by opposing sides of the Brexit debate and - significantly - the supposed threat of the far-right can be used to placate far-right ideas, rather than to genuinely challenge them.
虽然人们已经开始关注对极右翼的支持，但对于极右翼的威胁如何被用于政治目的，人们关注得还不够。本文以英国脱欧辩论为例对此进行了探讨。因此，问题是：在关于英国脱欧的讨论中，谈论极右翼的目的是什么？本文采用话语心理学的方法，对 2019 年第一季度的报纸报道（n=45）进行了分析，这些报道中既包含“极右翼”，也包含“英国脱欧”。分析确定了谈论极右翼的一系列用途：（1）脱欧派抗议者称反对脱欧的人为纳粹分子，而这些抗议者被贴上极右翼的标签；（2）脱欧的缺乏被说成是极右翼的燃料；（3）留欧派支持者拒绝认为脱欧的缺乏会助长极右翼；（4）一位著名的脱欧支持者拒绝与极右翼有任何关联；（5）对脱欧的支持再次与极右翼联系在一起。极右翼可以被英国脱欧辩论的对立双方用作一种策略性工具，而且——重要的是——极右翼的所谓威胁可以被用来安抚极右翼的观点，而不是真正地对其进行挑战。
