The monolingual bias in studies on populism

BONNIN, JUAN EDUARDO

Diggit Magazine

Tilburg University

Lugar: Tilburg; Año: 2020

Scholarly articles written in English about populism often forget linguistic and discursive diversity. Driven by the need to include extremely different historical experiences, when these articles address the concept of ?populism? as a ?thin ideology?, that concept becomes increasingly at odds with a discursive approach.By using English as the sole language for designing and communicating scientific research ? both data and theory ? linguistic diversity is also obliterated, as there seems to be a transparent equivalency between the English word ?people? and the Portuguese ?povo?, the Spanish ?pueblo?, the Italian ?popolo?, and so on.