Political Discourse in Central, Eastern and Balkan Europe
Title | Political Discourse in Central, Eastern and Balkan Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Martina Berrocal |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 2019-07-15 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027262225 |
This edited volume offers new insights into contemporary political discourses in Slavic speaking countries by focusing on discursive and linguistic means deployed in relevant genres, such as parliamentary discourse, commemorative and presidential speeches, mediated communication, and literal and philosophical essays. The depth of the linguistic analysis reflects different levels of linkage between language and social practice constituting the discourse. The theoretical and methodological approaches discussed range from interactional pragmatics over corpus linguistics to CDA. The chapters contain original language material in Russian, Polish, Czech, Croatian, Serbian and Macedonian, and the authors address issues such as the affiliation to different political and social groups within parliamentary settings, national identity, gender and minorities, as well as cultural memory and reconciliation.
Contesting Europe's Eastern Rim
Title | Contesting Europe's Eastern Rim PDF eBook |
Author | Ljiljana Saric |
Publisher | Multilingual Matters |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 2010-11-15 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1847694861 |
Since 1989, Europe’s eastern rim has been in constant flux. This collection focuses on how political and economic transformations have triggered redefinitions of cultural identity. Using discursive modes of identity construction (deconstruction, reconstruction, reformulation, and invention) the book focuses on the creation of opposition to old and new 'outsiders' and 'insiders' in Europe. The linguistic study of discourse elements in connection with an exploration of the significance of metaphors in anchoring individual and collective identity is innovative and allows for a unique analysis of public discourse in Europe.
Discourse and Transformation in Central and Eastern Europe
Title | Discourse and Transformation in Central and Eastern Europe PDF eBook |
Author | A. Galasinska |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 2008-12-19 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0230594298 |
This volume explores the discursive nature of post-1989 social change in Central and Eastern Europe. Through a set of national case studies, the construction of post-communist transformation is explored from the point of view of accelerating and unique dynamics of linguistic and discursive practices.
Why Narratives of History Matter
Title | Why Narratives of History Matter PDF eBook |
Author | Clémentine Roth |
Publisher | Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft |
Pages | 376 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Political Science |
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Based on a comparative study of Serbia and Croatia, this book investigates the role of narratives in the integration process of candidate countries into the European Union (EU). It develops an original model in order to analyse the structure and political use of narratives. Its novelty consists in integrating the concept of topoi and other elements of literature studies that enable a fine-grained and yet still transferable approach to narratives. I argue that narratives influence the conditions for possible political action by delineating the range of possible and desirable forms of behaviour. This study's empirical research mainly consists of a discourse analysis of political documents, including parliamentary debates, political speeches and interviews with experts. The author is a political scientist who pursued her PhD at the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS) and is now working as a project manager at Steinbeis-Europa-Zentrum in Karlsruhe.
Whose Love of Which Country?
Title | Whose Love of Which Country? PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 792 |
Release | 2010-03-08 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9004183590 |
The volume, stemming from the long-term cooperation of scholars working on East Central European intellectual history, discusses the patterns of patriotic and national identification in the light of the multiplicity of levels of ethnic, cultural and political allegiances characterizing this region in the early modern period.
Political Communication and European Parliamentary Elections in Times of Crisis
Title | Political Communication and European Parliamentary Elections in Times of Crisis PDF eBook |
Author | Ruxandra Boicu |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 2016-12-30 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1137585919 |
This book tackles the 2014 European Parliamentary election as an event, phenomenon and process from an interdisciplinary but coherent perspective. This edited volume includes research by prestigious academics from the former communist countries in question, all of which have only recently become EU members. The contributors consider whether there is a crisis of Euroscepticism, or, for that matter, extremism of any kind in each country discussed. In doing so, the volume seeks to analyse the future of the European Union itself. It will appeal to scholars and graduate students interested in elections and voting behaviour, comparative European politics, and political communication.
The Politics of East European Area Studies
Title | The Politics of East European Area Studies PDF eBook |
Author | Gareth Dale |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 90 |
Release | 2017-09-13 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1317226860 |
Following the end of the Cold War and European Union enlargement, in what sense does Eastern Europe continue to exist as a meaningful geo-political concept? In addressing this question, contributors to this volume—Alex Cistelecan, Robert Bideleux, Katalin Miklóssy and Dieter Segert—tease out the implications for an ‘Area Studies’ approach to the region. They examine its contradictory situation within discourses of ‘orientalisation’: on one hand, posited as the ‘underdeveloped’ pendant to its western neighbours; on the other, largely Christian by religion and an integral part of a continent that dominated the world. They uncover the roots of area studies in the ‘colonial paradigm’ by which great powers promote the creation of predictive, ‘problem-solving’ knowledge that is immediately apprehendable for decision makers, helping them to take advantage of a region’s resources and strategic position, but which tends to homogenise the region’s geography and history. For critical inquiry, they argue, the challenge is to delineate transparently the reasons underlying Eastern Europe’s construction as an area of study, to identify the epistemological interests of motivated organisations such as funding agencies and political bodies, and to counter the ongoing orientalism of Western perspectives toward the East. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe.