Overview

European Identity examines how Europe is represented linguistically in the news media of four EU countries, France, Italy, Poland, and the UK, through the use of an electronic corpus built from newspapers and television news transcripts. This multilingual comparable corpus, is composed of the entire contents of four newspapers published in each country, collected over two periods of three months, and the transcriptions of two TV news broadcasts, collected over two periods of two months. The theoretical and methodological frameworks adopted include discourse analysis, corpus linguistics and corpus-assisted discourse analysis. The individual chapters investigate various aspects of European identity as it is discursively construed in the news media of the different countries, such as Europe as a political and geographic entity, European Union institutions, European history, citizenship, and immigration. Based on a bottom-up orientation and using both quantitative and qualitative methods, all chapters but one use a comparative approach to the data, juxtaposing the journalist representations of Europe in two or more languages. The fundamental aim of the volume is to demonstrate how linguistic analysis, and in particular the study of large amounts of linguistic data, can make a vital contribution to the analysis of political and social issues

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Author:   Paul Bayley (, Professor of English Language and Linguistics, Faculty of Political Science, University of Bologna at Forlì) ,  Geoffrey Williams (, Professor of Linguistics, Pro Vice-Chancellor for International Relations, University of South Brittany)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.662kg
ISBN:  

9780199602308

ISBN 10:   0199602301
Pages:   338
Publication Date:   31 May 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Paul Bayley and Geoffrey Williams: Introduction: Exploring the IntUne Corpus Part I Representing Europe: Its Nations and its Institutions 2: Nathalie Dugalès and Gordon Tucker: Representations of Representation: European Institutions in the French and British Press 3: Geoffrey Williams, Roberta Piazza, and Delphine Giuliani: Nation and Supernation: A Tale of Three Europes 4: Joanna Thornborrow, Louann Haarman and Alison Duguid: Discourses of European Identity in British, Italian, and French TV News Part II Representing Europe: Its People and its Citizens 5: Anna Marchi and Alan Partington: Does 'Europe' Have a Common Historical Identity? 6: Paul Bayley, Delphine Giuliani, and Vanessa Serret: Semantic Constructions of Citizenship in the British, French, and Italian Press 7: John Morley and Charlotte Taylor: Us and Them: How Immigrants are Constructed in British and Italian Newspapers 8: Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk and Jerzy Tomaszczyk: We in the Union: A Polish Perspective on Identity 9: Marco Venuti, Silvia de Candia, Mikolaj Deckert, and Christophe Ropers: Legitimated Persons and Vox Populi Attitudes Towards Europe in French, Italian, Polish, and UK TV news 10: John Morley: Conclusions: Speaking in Tongues about Europe References Index

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... this book is a useful and timely adition to the growing body of work on both European identity as well as to the growing use of corpus linguistics as a method in (critical) discourse analysis. Samuel Bennett, Journal of Language and Politics

Author Information

Paul Bayley has held teaching posts at the Universities of Padua and Macerata. He has published widely on various aspects of political language, discourse analysis, and corpus linguistics. He is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Bologna where he teaches academic English and analysis of political language. Geoffrey Williams lectures in corpus linguistics, lexicography, and the use of the Text Encoding Initiative for data management. He has published widely in corpus linguistics and lexicography. He is currently President of EURALEX and the French Association for Applied Linguistics - AFLA. He is Professor of Linguistics and Pro Vice-Chancellor for International Relations at the University of South Brittany, member of the European University of Brittany.

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