Alma-Pierre Bonnet
List of John Benjamins publications in which Alma-Pierre Bonnet is involved.
Articles
2026 “The rock of stability?”: A critical narrative analysis of Keir Starmer’s storytelling as opposition leader (2020–2024) Journal of Language and Politics 25:1, pp. 50–70 | Article
Within the fields of narratology and discourse analysis, this paper proposes a critical narrative analysis of Sir Keir Starmer’s storytelling at the four party conferences he attended as opposition leader. The objective is to assess how Starmer attempted to create the image of a strong and… read more
2026 Family narratives as a way out of the political wilderness? The case of opposition leaders in the United Kingdom Narrative Inquiry 36:1, pp. 111–132 | Article
This article discusses the use of so-called “family narratives” in political discourse by analysing critically the way opposition leaders have resorted to this type of narratives in the United Kingdom. It is argued that family narratives represent a discursive gateway out of the political… read more
2024 Enemy narratives: How the official Brexit campaign “Vote Leave” narrated the boundaries of the British Nation Narrative Boundaries: Constitutional struggles in an age of polarization, Cordero, Rodrigo and Raimundo Frei (eds.), pp. 699–722 | Article
Within the fields of narratology, cognitive linguistics and discourse analysis, this article studies how “Vote Leave” – the “respectable” side of the pro-Brexit debate –, used storytelling to frame an exclusionary conception of the British nation. To do so, the article relies on a critical… read more