Gyulai, AttilaPoszpisek, Árpad2020-02-062019-08-022019http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/29463The dissertation aims at examining the populist features of the Hungarian governing party, Fidesz during its third term between 2014 and 2018, through the application of post-structuralist discourse theory. The choice of the theoretical approach is justified by the fact that most populism theories ignore the constitutive role of the language in politics. The dissertation analyses speeches of the leader of Fidesz, Viktor Orbán, who has occupied the position of prime minister since the 2010 landslide victory of his party. The analysis is going to demonstrate that Fidesz employs populist way of articulation in their political communication through which it has constructed dichotomies between the people and their enemies, and has presented itself as the only party that is capable of preventing the enemies from harming the people. A further purpose of the dissertation is to prove the value of a post-structuralist approach of studying populism through demonstrating that many essential features of populist articulation cannot be understood without putting an emphasis on the discursive space of politics.engmaster thesis202400506