The Topic of Migration in Populist Discourse

Téma migrácie v populistickom diskurze

Mária SPIŠIAKOVÁ 

https://doi.org/10.53465/JAP.2025.9788022552806.518-535

 

Abstract: In the study we analyze the political discourse of right-wing politicians Santiago Abascal and Alvise Pérez. Both are considered to be on the extreme right in Spain, and one of the controversial topics in their discourse and public speeches is the issue of immigration and immigrants in Spain. This research article reports on a qualitative study based on a corpus of speeches by Santiago Abascal and Alvise Pérez published online in the period 2023-2025. The aim is to provide a critical content analysis and linguistic analysis of their speeches and to identify and characterize the populist discursive about migration features present in his communications. The linguistic analysis seeks to identify the linguistic resources used by the speaker to connect with his followers. It demonstrates how the speaker uses different persuasive strategies to arouse emotions and feelings in the audience, using simple, direct, and accessible language to connect with the public.

Keywords: political discourse, migrants, populism, language

Kľúčové slová: politický diskurz, migranti, populismus, jazyk

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Language of the paper: Slovak

Online publication date: 23 December 2025

Pages: 518 – 535

 

ISBN: 978-80-225-5280-6 (online), 978-80-225-5279-0

ISSN: 2729-8973 (online), 2729-8981

Publisher: Bratislava University of Economics and Business, Vydavateľstvo Ekonóm

 

How to cite this conference proceedings paper (APA 7^th Edition):

Spišiaková, M. (2025). Téma migrácie v populistickom diskurze. In R. Štefančík (Ed.), Jazyk a politika. Na pomedzí lingvistiky a politológie X (pp. 518–535). Vydavateľstvo Ekonóm. https://doi.org/10.53465/JAP.2025.9788022552806.518-535