Rhetoric of Brexit Humour

-examines the relationship between Brexit and its comedy, exploring how Brexit and comedy are connected in both Leave and Remain discourse

-argues that both populism and comedy are rhetorical in nature and so are linked through their semantic structure and communicative potential

-the author analyses the populism that has emerged from those incongruities in the form of ironic, ambiguous and dichotomous discourse

-provides not just an advance in our understanding of political satire but also a clearer description of the nature of populism