European identity
Subtitle: what the media say
By: edited by Paul Bayley and Geoffrey Williams
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780199602308
Subjects: Rhetoric; Mass media and language; Discourse analysis; Press coverage; National characteristics in mass media; Identity (Psychology) and mass media
Description: 'European Identity' examines how Europe is represented linguistically in the news media of France, Italy, Poland, and the UK, through the use of an electronic corpus built from newspapers and TV news transcripts. The aim is to demonstrate how linguistic analysis can make a key contribution to the analysis of political issues.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Exploring the IntUne corpus / Paul Bayley and Geoffrey Williams; title: Representations of representation: European institutions in the French and British press / Nathalie Dugalès and Gordon Tucker; title: Nation and supernation: a tale of three Europes / Geoffrey Williams, Roberta Piazza, and Delphine Giuliani; title: Discourses of European identity in British, Italian, and French TV news / Joanna Thornborrow, Louann Haarman, and Alison Duguid; title: Representing Europe: its people and its citizens. Does "Europe" have a common historical identity? / Anna Marchi and Alan Partington; title: Semantic constructions of citizenship in the British, French, and Italian press / Paul Bayley, Delphine Giuliani, and Vanessa Serret; title: Us and them: how immigrants are constructed in British and Italian newspapers / John Morley and Charlotte Taylor; title: We in the Union: a Polish perspective on identity /  Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk and Jerzy Tomaszczyk; title: Legitimated persons and Vox Populi attitudes towards Europe in French, Italian, Polish, and UK tv news /  Marco Venuti...[et al.]; title: Conclusions: speaking in tongues about Europe /  John Morley.