Constructing Scottish identity in media discourses
Subtitle: the use of common sense knowledge in the Scottish press
By: Miriam Schröder
Series: Scottish studies international : publications of the Scottish Studies Centre, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz in Germersheim -- Bd./v. 40
Publisher: Peter Lang GmbH
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Frankfurt am Main
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9783631663158; 9783653056068
Subjects: Politics and government; Sociology of Knowledge; Decentralization in government; Press coverage; Mass media; Press and politics; Nationalism in the press; Scottish newspapers; History
Description: "Scotland's efforts to establish and assert its distinct national identity have a long tradition. National identity has been a central theme throughout the centuries in a country where economic, political, and social issues have tended to be closely bound up with questions of national mentality and emotion. This book examines the part played by Scottish newspapers in constructing identity during a key period of the devolution process, 1997-2011. It uses insights from the fields of linguistics, sociology and cognitive science on the construction of culturally defined knowledge and the notions of identity that emerge from it. The study contributes to the understanding of Scottish identity, and its evaluations are relevant beyond the immediate context of Scotland and the United Kingdom"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical reference and index.
Table of contents: title: Theoretical principles of knowledge construction and national identification; title: Scotland and Scottish identity as subjects of research; title: Analysing media discourses : a method for assessing journalistic representations of national identity; title: Common sense knowledge about Scottish identity in Scottish newspapers, 1997-2011; title: Appendix: Index of newspaper texts analysed in the corpus; title: List of Herald texts; title: List of Scotsman texts.