@inbook{e12422157a1f4958aafbea7d533f3b01,
title = "The Devil Has All the Best Tunes: An Investigation of the Lexical Phenomenon of Brexit",
abstract = "This chapter discusses the linguistic issues inherent in how the Leave and Remain campaigns were promoted in the UK{\textquoteright}s 2016 referendum on whether Britain should remain a member of or leave the European Union. Specifically, it is argued that the linguistic creativity in the label {\textquoteleft}Brexit{\textquoteright} was beneficial to campaigners in favour of Britain leaving the EU. The chapter presents analyses of the morphological structure of the term {\textquoteleft}Brexit{\textquoteright}, its competitor term {\textquoteleft}Bremain{\textquoteright} and the related terms coined to describe adherents of both the Leave and Remain positions. It then moves on to discuss usage of the term {\textquoteleft}Brexit{\textquoteright} particularly, taking a corpus-based approach to examining its function and ideological effects in context.",
keywords = "Brexit, Leave, Remain, EU, Britain, Linguistic creativity",
author = "Lesley Jeffries and Daniel McIntyre",
year = "2018",
month = aug,
day = "31",
doi = "10.4324/9781351183222-7",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780815395768",
series = "Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Stylistics",
publisher = "Routledge",
pages = "103--122",
editor = "Ruth Page and Beatrix Busse and Nina N{\o}rgaard",
booktitle = "Rethinking Language, Text and Context",
address = "United Kingdom",
edition = "1st",
}