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European Identity

What the Media Say

Paul Bayley editor Geoffrey Williams editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:31st May '12

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European Identity examines how Europe is represented linguistically in the news media of four EU countries, France, Italy, Poland, and the UK, through the use of an electronic corpus built from newspapers and television news transcripts. This multilingual comparable corpus, is composed of the entire contents of four newspapers published in each country, collected over two periods of three months, and the transcriptions of two TV news broadcasts, collected over two periods of two months. The theoretical and methodological frameworks adopted include discourse analysis, corpus linguistics and corpus-assisted discourse analysis. The individual chapters investigate various aspects of European identity as it is discursively construed in the news media of the different countries, such as Europe as a political and geographic entity, European Union institutions, European history, citizenship, and immigration. Based on a bottom-up orientation and using both quantitative and qualitative methods, all chapters but one use a comparative approach to the data, juxtaposing the journalist representations of Europe in two or more languages. The fundamental aim of the volume is to demonstrate how linguistic analysis, and in particular the study of large amounts of linguistic data, can make a vital contribution to the analysis of political and social issues

... this book is a useful and timely adition to the growing body of work on both European identity as well as to the growing use of corpus linguistics as a method in (critical) discourse analysis. * Samuel Bennett, Journal of Language and Politics *

ISBN: 9780199602308

Dimensions: 240mm x 162mm x 27mm

Weight: 662g

338 pages