Populist Rhetorics Case Studies and a Minimalist Definition

Christian Kock is Emeritus Professor of Rhetoric at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He has published in Philosophy and Rhetoric, Argumentation, Political Communication, Rhetorica, Rhetorica Scandinavica, Paradigmi, Informal Logic, Controversia and many other journals and has authored and edited several books in Danish and English on political rhetoric, argumentation, and public debate, most recently his Deliberative Rhetoric: Arguing about Doing (2017).

Lisa Villadsen is Professor and Head of the Section of Rhetoric at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She has published in Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Quarterly Journal of Speech, Javnost, Rhetorica Scandinavica , and other journals on official apologies, political rhetoric, dissent, and populism, most recently “Low Style the High Way: Rhetorical Mainstreaming of Populism” in the edited volume Vox Populi: Populism as a Rhetorical and Democratic Challenge (2020).