Straight talking honest politics: Rhetorical style and ethos in the mediated politics of metamodernity BROWSE, Sam <http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8709-5468> Available from Sheffield Hallam University Research Archive (SHURA) at: http://shura.shu.ac.uk/25033/ This document is the author deposited version. You are advised to consult the publisher's version if you wish to cite from it. Published version BROWSE, Sam (2020). Straight talking honest politics: Rhetorical style and ethos in the mediated politics of metamodernity. In: RINGROW, Helen and PIHLAJA, Stephen, (eds.) Contemporary Media Stylistics. Contemporary Studies in Linguistics . London, Bloomsbury. (In Press) Copyright and re-use policy See http://shura.shu.ac.uk/information.html Sheffield Hallam University Research Archive http://shura.shu.ac.uk Contemporary Media Stylistics Chapter Submission Due 30 May 2018 to
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[email protected] Contact Department of Humanities, Sheffield Hallam University, Howard Street, Address Sheffield, UK, S1 1WB Sam Browse is a senior lecturer in English Language at Sheffield Hallam Bionote University. He is the author of Cognitive Rhetoric: The Cognitive Poetics of Political Discourse (2018, John Benjamins). His work explores the stylistics of political discourse and can be divided into two main areas of activity: analysing the discourse of post-truth and the language of the British left, and, more broadly, the development of audience or reader-centred approaches to political text and talk. Chapter Title Straight talking honest politics: rhetorical style and ethos in the mediated politics of metamodernity Abstract The leader of the British Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, is known for his ‘straight talking, honest politics’ (indeed, this was the slogan for his first leadership campaign).