Get Brexit Done

Abstract

On June 23rd 2016, the UK held a referendum on its withdrawal from the European Union. News media were extremely active in using the term Brexit to illustrate Britains firm decision to leave the Union. Nevertheless, the term itself was publicly first used in 2012 by David Cameron, when he made a decision to open the referendum for the first time. Consequently, Brexit was quickly used in international media as an identification of the British people and the country. Domestically, traditional newspapers (also known as broadsheet newspapers) and tabloids take advantage of the term to exploit its readers to the Brexit issue. Through investigating the political and nationalistic critical discourse analysis of the right and left wing broadsheet newspapers and tabloids (Guardian & The Daily Mirror, The Sun & The Daily Mail), it searches if these media outlets have used discussions of identity to be able to shift the course of identity of its readers between the years of 2016 and 2020.