The Discursive Construction of European Identities: A Multi-Level Approach to Discourse and Identity in the Transforming European Union (Sprache im Kontext) - Hardcover

Krzyzanowski, Michal

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3631610467 ISBN 13: 9783631610466

Publisher: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2010

Synopsis

This book looks at the discursive construction of European identities in a variety of institutional and non-institutional contexts and through a variety of social and political actors. Its multilevel and interdisciplinary approach – rooted in the Discourse-Historical tradition of Critical Discourse Analysis – allows for a comparison of identity constructions at different levels of Europe’s social and political organisation and in different modes of communication. The book analyses discourses as diverse as those of the EU politicians, of Europe’s national media as well as of migrants living in Europe. It offers a set of integrated models and analytical procedures which bring to the fore the inherent dynamism and complexity of both ‘bottom-up’ and ‘top-down’ European identity constructions.

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About the Author

Michał Krzyżanowski is a Senior Research Fellow at Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University (UK), and Assistant Professor at the School of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań (Poland). He has researched and published widely on discourse and communication in Europe and the EU.

Edition details

• Publisher: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3631610467
• ISBN 13: 9783631610466
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 234