Essays about: "Olle Nykvist"

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  1. 1. Standing up for The Everyday Americans : The discursive articulation of the true ‘American’ in the Tea Party movement

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST)

    Author : Olle Nykvist; [2016]
    Keywords : Tea Party; populism; discourse; identity; American;

    Abstract : This thesis uses discourse theory on speeches made by four Tea Party elites: Glenn Beck, Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin, and Rand Paul, to see how they construct an American identity. My purpose is to show how the Tea party movement articulates the American identity by exploring the way in which they use chains of equivalences to produce meaning to their identity. READ MORE