Discursive Construction of National Identity
Title | Discursive Construction of National Identity PDF eBook |
Author | Ruth Wodak |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | 288 |
Release | 2009-01-19 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0748637354 |
How do we construct national identities in discourse? Which topics, which discursive strategies and which linguistic devices are employed to construct national sameness and uniqueness on the one hand, and differences to other national collectives on the other hand? The Discursive Construction of National Identity analyses discourses of national identity in Europe with particular attention to Austria.In the tradition of critical discourse analysis, the authors analyse current and on-going transformations in the self-and other definition of national identities using an innovative interdisciplinary approach which combines discourse-historical theory and methodology and political science perspectives. Thus, the rhetorical promotion of national identification and the discursive construction and reproduction of national difference on public, semi-public and semi-private levels within a nation state are analysed in much detail and illustrated with a huge amount of examples taken from many genres (speeches, focus-groups, interviews, media, and so forth). In addition to the critical discourse analysis of multiple genres accompanying various commemorative and celebratory events in 1995, this extended and revised edition is able to draw comparisons with similar events in 2005. The impact of socio-political changes in Austria and in the European Union is also made transparent in the attempts of constructing hegemonic national identities.
The Discursive Construction of National Identity
Title | The Discursive Construction of National Identity PDF eBook |
Author | Ruth Wodak |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 296 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
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This book analyses discourses of national identity in Europe with particular attention to Austria.
The Discursive Construction of European Identities
Title | The Discursive Construction of European Identities PDF eBook |
Author | Michał Krzyżanowski |
Publisher | Peter Lang |
Total Pages | 240 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Ethnicity |
ISBN | 9783631610466 |
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.
Discursive Constructions of Identity in European Politics
Title | Discursive Constructions of Identity in European Politics PDF eBook |
Author | R. Mole |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 236 |
Release | 2007-07-12 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0230591302 |
This volume brings together specialists from a range of disciplines to discuss the discursive construction of ethnic, national and regional identities and analyse how specific identity discourses condition and constrain knowledge and action with regard to various socio-political issues in Europe.
Analysing Identities in Discourse
Title | Analysing Identities in Discourse PDF eBook |
Author | Rosana Dolón |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | 219 |
Release | 2008-04-23 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027290865 |
The discursive construction of identity is often under the control of the dominant forces in society and frequently results in forms of manipulation and abuse. This awareness led to the celebration of the First International Conference on CDA (València 2004), where over three-hundred academics working in the field of Critical Discourse Analysis became actively engaged in this important issue. The seven studies included in this volume have been selected as representative of those areas of human experience that have been given most intellectual attention and considered to be in fact in need for critical unravelling. Ethnic categorization in multicultural classrooms, patriotic discourse construction in Chinese readers, the denial of Palestinian identity in schoolbooks, the diverse constructions of European identities, Arabs constructing themselves on the worldwide web, identity construction in sexual assault trials, the representations of a dangerous ‘other’ in cases of PLWHAs, are the contextual perspectives embraced in this book to account for forms of power abuse in the discursive construction of identities.
The Discursive Construction of History
Title | The Discursive Construction of History PDF eBook |
Author | Hannes Heer |
Publisher | Palgrave MacMillan |
Total Pages | 372 |
Release | 2008-02-12 |
Genre | History |
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How do democratic and pluralistic societies cope with traumatic events in their past? What strategies and taboos are employed to reconstruct wars, revolutions, torturing, mass killings and genocide in a way to make their contradiction to basic human rights and values invisible? This interdisciplinary volume analyzes in detail for the first time, in multiple genres, the history and image of the "German Wehrmacht" and the debates in Austria and Germany surrounding two highly contested exhibitions about the war crimes of the German Wehrmacht during WWII.
Metaphors of Brexit
Title | Metaphors of Brexit PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Charteris-Black |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Total Pages | 345 |
Release | 2019-11-06 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 3030287688 |
How were social media posts, scripted speeches, traditional news media and political cartoons used and understood during the Brexit campaign? What phrases and metaphors were key during and after the 2016 Brexit referendum? How far did the Remain and Leave campaigns rely on metaphor to engage with supporters in communicating their political positions? These questions, and many others, can be answered only through a systematic analysis of the actual language used in relation to Brexit by the different parties involved. By drawing on a range of data sources and types of communication, and presenting them as 'frames' through which individuals can attempt to understand the world, the author provides the first book-length examination of the metaphors of Brexit. This book takes a detailed look at the rhetorical language behind one of the major political events of the era, and it will be of interest to students and scholars of linguistics and political science, as well as anyone with a special interest in metaphor, rhetoric, Brexit, or political communication more broadly.