REFRAMING THE EUROPEAN UNION IN FRENCH NATIONALIST DISCOURSE BY MARINE LE PEN
REFRAMING THE EUROPEAN UNION IN FRENCH NATIONALIST DISCOURSE BY MARINE LE PEN

Summary/Abstract: The present article aims to emphasize the conceptual means employed by Marine Le Pen, leader of the French party Front National, in discourse in the attempt to justify and instill a specific ideology, and to relate different types of nationalistic movements across Europe, a connection meant to serve the political goal of defining the identity of a party and of depicting an attractive ideological perspective. The article also details aspects of discourse analysis revealing underlying ideology. With this article, the endeavor is to raise awareness and educate towards a critical interpretation of political discourse.

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