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本文借鉴话语空间理论和代理理论中的STA-proximization模型，重点研究英国报纸上的脱欧话语如何以及为什么倾向于其他欧盟，并将欧盟和移民描述为一个威胁英国及其人民的巨大威胁。

Chapter 1 Introduction

1.1 Research Background

1.1.1 Brexit and the EU Referendum

On  June  23,  2016,  the  United  Kingdom  voted  for  Brexit-withdrawal  from  the European  Union  (E.U.)  in  the  EU  referendum,  i.e.,  its  national  referendum  on  EU membership.  There  was  a  sense  of  shock  and  disbelief  both  in  Britain  and  across European  capitals,  when  it  turned  out that  a  small  majority  (51.9  percent)  of  British voters cast their ballot in favor of leaving the EU. Brexit was not the result expected, or  campaigned  for,  by  the  major  political  parties  in  Britain,  including  the  main opposition  party,  Labour.  The  major  business  interests  and  trade  unions  are  on  the remain side, as well as most foreign leaders and international organizations (Hobolt, 2016, p. 1261).

However, the outcome of the referendum on EU membership was not surprising to  some  extent  (Hobolt,  2016,  pp.1260-61).  Among  the  various  reasons  behind  the vote  to  leave,  two  facts  are  not  to  be  ignored.  First,  ever  since  the  UK  joined  the European  Economic  Community  (EEC)  in  1973,  the  British  public  has  consistently been  the  most  Eurosceptic  electorate,  and  opinion  polls  conducted  before  the referendum  had  suggested  that  the  Brexit  referendum  would  be  a  very  close  race. Second,  public  worries  about  economic  recession,  and  anger  with  the  major  parties’  inability  to  manage  immigration  issue  properly  have  contributed  to  the  electoral successes of populist parties in Britain and across Europe, and the anti-establishment message has made the leave campaign highly effective (Hobolt & Tilley, 2016; Kriesi, et al., 2012).

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1.2 Research Questions

From  the  perspective  of  threat  construction,  this  thesis  offers  a  corpus-based critical  discourse  analysis  of  language  imMediately  surrounding  the  terms  “Brexit” and “immigration” in the news coverage by three British tabloids (the Daily Express, the  Daily  Mail,  and  the  Sun)  between  June  2015  and  June  2016.  Drawing  upon Discourse Space Theory (DST) and Proximization Theory (PT), the current research intends to answer the following three questions:

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