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Contesting Europe's Eastern Rim

Author : Ljiljana Saric,Andreas Musolff,Stefan Manz,Ingrid Hudabiunigg
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781847694867

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Contesting Europe's Eastern Rim by Ljiljana Saric,Andreas Musolff,Stefan Manz,Ingrid Hudabiunigg Pdf

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.

Beyond Boycotts

Author : Philippe Vonnard,Nicola Sbetti,Grégory Quin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110529098

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Beyond Boycotts by Philippe Vonnard,Nicola Sbetti,Grégory Quin Pdf

Sport during Cold War has recently begun to be studied in more depth. Some scholars have edited a book about the US and Soviet sport diplomacy and show ow the government of these two countries have used sport during this period, notably as a tool of "soft power" during the Olympic games. Our goal is to continue in this direction and to focus more on the sport field as a place of exchanges during the Cold War. Regarding this point, our aim is to show that there were events "beyond boycotts"many and that unknown connections existed inside sport. Morevoer, many actors were involved in these exchanges. Thus, it is important not only to focus on the action of States, but also on private actors (international sporting bodies and journalists), considering that they acted around sport (an "apolitic" field) as it was tool to maintain links between the two blocs. Our project offers a good opportunity for young scholars to present original research based on new materials (notably the use of institutional or personals archives). Morevoer, it is also a step forward with a view to conduct research within a global history paradigm, one that is still underused in sport academic fields.

European Identities in Discourse

Author : Franco Zappettini
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781350042971

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European Identities in Discourse by Franco Zappettini Pdf

Based on empirical research, this book closely analyses how European identities are discursively produced. It focuses on discourse from members of a civic association active in promoting democracy and attempting participation in the transnational public sphere. Unlike previous books that have addressed the question of European identity from top-down stances or through methodological nationalism, this book engages with the multifaceted concept of transnationalism as a key to the negotiation of 'glocal' identities. Applying a discourse historical approach (DHA) through a transnational reading, it shows how grassroots actors/speakers construct their different cultural and political affiliations as both world and European citizens. They negotiate institutional identities and historical discourses of nationhood through new forms of mobility, cultural diversity and the imagination of Europe as a proxy for a cosmopolitan civil society. These discourses are ever more important in a fractured and polarised Europe falling prey to contrary discourses of nationhood and ethnic solidarity. Highlighting how transnational narratives of solidarity and the de-territorialisation of civic participation can impact on the (re)imagination of the European community beyond tropes like 'Fortress Europe' or intragovernmental politics, this important book shows how identification processes must be read through historical and global as well as localised contexts.

The Politics of Europeanization and Post-Socialist Transformations

Author : N. Lindstrom
Publisher : Springer
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137352187

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The Politics of Europeanization and Post-Socialist Transformations by N. Lindstrom Pdf

This study examines conflicts arising from the dual processes of Europeanization and post-socialist transformations, from gaining independence in 1991 to facing the current economic crisis. Through an in-depth comparison of Estonia and Slovenia over time, it shows how elite actors within these two very different welfare capitalist states resisted EU pressures to change their cohesive and successful national models.

Frontex and the Rising of a New Border Control Culture in Europe

Author : Antonia-Maria Sarantaki
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000846256

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Frontex and the Rising of a New Border Control Culture in Europe by Antonia-Maria Sarantaki Pdf

This book examines the rapidly expanding EU agency’s distinct role in EU border control, showing that Frontex is a prominent border control actor that reshapes the EU borders by promoting a new border control culture. Bringing culture into the analysis of Frontex, this book offers an alternative in-depth understanding of the agency’s function, focusing on the production and diffusion of border control assumptions and practices within a border control community. Based on data drawn from primary research at Frontex and two EU external borders, namely Lampedusa and Evros, this book examines Frontex’s contribution to the emergence of a new border control culture in Europe, replacing the pre-existing Schengen culture. Compared with the existing literature on Frontex, this novel account takes into consideration the evolving nature of borders and border control, discussing three contemporary challenges for the established border control regime: Brexit, the COVID-19 pandemic, and hard security preoccupations, such as the fall-out from the Russian invasion in Ukraine and the weaponisation of migration at the Greek-Turkish land border. Frontex and the Rising of a New Border Control Culture in Europe will appeal to scholars and students of border management, EU studies, migration, geography, international relations, and security, along with policymakers and practitioners with an interest in EU border control and Frontex.

Transforming National Holidays

Author : Ljiljana Šari?,Karen Gammelgaard,Kjetil Rå Hauge
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027272973

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Transforming National Holidays by Ljiljana Šari?,Karen Gammelgaard,Kjetil Rå Hauge Pdf

How do people construct collective identity during profound societal transformations? This volume examines the discursive construction of identity related to important national holidays in nine countries of Central Europe and the Balkans: Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Serbia, and Slovakia. The chapters focus on the decades during which these countries moved from communism towards democracy and a market economy. This transition saw revivals of national values and a new significance of regional and transnational ties, entangled with negotiations of national identity that have been particularly lively in discourse concerning national holidays. The chapters apply discourse analysis in addition to approaches from history, sociology, political science, and anthropology. All of the analyses make use of empirical material in the Slavic languages, including newspaper articles, interviews and other media contributions, sermons, addresses, and speeches by members of the political elite.

LGBT Activism and Europeanisation in the Post-Yugoslav Space

Author : Bojan Bilić
Publisher : Springer
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137572615

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LGBT Activism and Europeanisation in the Post-Yugoslav Space by Bojan Bilić Pdf

Europe and the European Union are unavoidable, if ambiguous, political references in the post-Yugoslav space. This volume interrogates the forms and implications of the increasingly potent symbolic nexus that has developed between non-heterosexual sexualities, LGBT activism(s) and Europeanisation(s) in all of the Yugoslav successor states. Contributors to this book show how the long EU accession process disseminates discursive tools employed in LGBT activist struggles for human rights and equality. This creates a linkage between “Europeanness” and “gay emancipation” which elevates certain forms of gay activist engagement and perhaps also non-heterosexuality, more generally, to a measure of democracy, progress and modernity. At the same time, it relegates practices of intolerance to the LGBT community to the status of non-European primitivist Other who is inevitably positioned in the patriarchal past that should be left behind. >

Representing 21st-Century Migration in Europe

Author : Nelson González Ortega,Ana Belén Martínez García
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800733817

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Representing 21st-Century Migration in Europe by Nelson González Ortega,Ana Belén Martínez García Pdf

The 21st century has witnessed some of the largest human migrations in history. Europe in particular has seen a major influx of refugees, redefining notions of borders and national identity. This interdisciplinary volume brings together leading international scholars of migration from perspectives as varied as literature, linguistics, area and cultural studies, media and communication, visual arts, and film studies. Together, they offer innovative interpretations of migrants and contemporary migration to Europe, enriching today’s political and media landscape, and engaging with the ongoing debate on forced mobility and rights of both extra-European migrants and European citizens.

Migrations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Author : Michi Messer,Renee Schroeder,Ruth Wodak
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783709109502

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Migrations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives by Michi Messer,Renee Schroeder,Ruth Wodak Pdf

This volume covers the most important contributions to and discussions at the international symposium Migrations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (1-3, July, University of Vienna), organised by Renée Schroeder and Ruth Wodak which was dedicated to the multiple interdisciplinary dimensions of ‘migrations’, both from the viewpoints of the Social Sciences and Humanities as well as from the manifold perspectives of the Natural Sciences. The book is organized along the following dimensions: Urban Development and Migration Peer Relations in Immigrant Adolescents: Methodological Challenges and Key Findings Migration, Identity, and Belonging Migration in/and Ego Documents Debating Migration Fundamentals of Diffusion and Spread in the Natural Sciences and beyond Media Representations of Migrants and Migration Migration and the Genes

Metaphor and Intercultural Communication

Author : Andreas Musolff,Fiona MacArthur,Giulio Pagani
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781472570475

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Metaphor and Intercultural Communication by Andreas Musolff,Fiona MacArthur,Giulio Pagani Pdf

Metaphor and Intercultural Communication examines in detail the dynamics of metaphor in interlingual contact, translation and globalization processes. Its case-studies, which combine methods of cognitive metaphor theory with those of corpus-based and discourse-oriented research, cover contact linguistic and cultural contacts between Chinese, English including Translational English and Aboriginal English, Greek, Kabyle, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, and Spanish. Part I introduces readers to practical and methodological problems of the intercultural transfer of metaphor through empirical (corpus-based and experimental) studies of translators' experiences and strategies in dealing with figurative language in a variety of contexts. Part II explores the universality-relativity dimension of cross- and intercultural metaphor on the basis of empirical data from various European and non-European cultures. Part III investigates the socio-economic and political consequences of figurative language use through case studies of communication between aboriginal and mainstream cultures, in the media, in political discourse and gender-related discourses. Special attention is paid to cases of miscommunication and of deliberate re- and counter-conceptualisation of clichés from one culture into another. The results open new perspectives on some of the basic assumptions of the 'classic' cognitive paradigm, e.g. regarding metaphor understanding, linguistic relativity and concept-construction.

Critical Discourse Analysis, Critical Discourse Studies and Beyond

Author : Theresa Catalano,Linda R. Waugh
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783030493790

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Critical Discourse Analysis, Critical Discourse Studies and Beyond by Theresa Catalano,Linda R. Waugh Pdf

This book explores the problem-oriented interdisciplinary research movement comprised of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) for scholars, teachers, and students from many backgrounds. Beginning with a Preface by renowned CDA/CDS scholar Ruth Wodak, it introduces CDA/CDS through examples of what its research looks like, delineates various precursors to CDA/CDS and important foundational concepts and theories, and traces its development from its early years until it became established. After the relationship between CDA and CDS is discussed, seven commonly cited approaches to CDA/CDS are outlined, including their connections and differences, their origins and development, major and associated scholars, research focus(es), and central concepts and distinguishing features. After a summary of critiques of CDA/CDS and responses by CDA/CDS scholars, the book provides an overview of its salient connections to other interdisciplinary areas of scholarship such as critical applied linguistics, education, anthropology/ ethnography, sociolinguistics, gender studies, queer linguistics, pragmatics and ecolinguistics. The final chapter describes how scholars use their knowledge of CDA/CDS to make a difference in the world.

Language Aggression in Public Debates on Immigration

Author : Andreas Musolff
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027262660

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Language Aggression in Public Debates on Immigration by Andreas Musolff Pdf

The global rise in the number, size and complexity of migration flows has not only resulted in an unprecedented flurry of debates and negotiations about how to deal with it through economic, social, and military policies but also in a huge increase in racist and xenophobic language use and discriminatory discourse. The expression of aggression and hatred in (anti-)immigration debates and its relationship to racism and its pseudo-justification lie at the center of this volume. Its seven main contributions provide exemplary analyses of European and US debates that instrumentalize anti-immigrant attitudes: on the one hand among far-right populists in Cyprus, in Serbian and Croatian nationalism, and in the Hungarian government’s attempts at legitimizing immigration exclusion, and on the other hand in discourses associated with US-president Trump and his followers, including racists’ tactical denial of racism. Methodologically, all studies pursue corpus-based Critical Discourse Analysis, with foci on lexical, figurative, argumentative and discourse-historical patterns. Together, they show the convergence of populist polemic strategies. Originally published as special issue of the Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict, issue 5:2 (2017).

Discourse, Grammar and Ideology

Author : Christopher Hart
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781441104854

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Discourse, Grammar and Ideology by Christopher Hart Pdf

Researchers in critical discourse analysis (CDA) have often pointed to grammar as a locus of ideology in discourse. This book illustrates the role that grammars as models of language (and image) can play in revealing ideological properties of texts and discourse in social and political contexts. The book takes the reader through three distinct grammatical frameworks – functional grammar, multimodal grammar and cognitive grammar. Using examples taken from a range of discourses relating to globalisation, including discourses of immigration, war, corporate practice and political protests, the book demonstrates the individual utility and the interconnectedness of these models inside CDA. A key argument advanced is that the cognitive processes necessarily involved in making sense of language are based in visual experience. This position offers new ways of understanding the ideological effects of grammatical choices in texts and suggests a reassessment of the relationship between linguistic and multimodal grammars in CDA. The book will appeal to students and researchers interested in CDA and the relationship between discourse, cognition and social action.

Food Democracy

Author : Oliver Vodeb
Publisher : Intellect Books
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781783207978

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Food Democracy by Oliver Vodeb Pdf

In a world where privatisation and capitalism dominate the global economy, the essays in this book ask how to make socially responsive communication, design and art that counters the role of the food industry as a machine of consumption. Food Democracy brings together contributions from leading international scholars and activists, critical case studies of emancipatory food practices and reflections on possible models for responsive communication design and art. A section of visual communication works, creative writings and accounts of participatory art for social and environmental change – curated by the Memefest Festival of Socially Responsive Communication and Art on the theme of "Food Democracy" – are also included here. The beautifully designed book also includes a unique and delicious compilation of socially engaged recipes by the academic, artist and activist community. Aiming not just to advance scholarship, but to push ahead real change in the world, Food Democracy is essential reading for scholars and citizens alike.

Advances in Cultural Linguistics

Author : Farzad Sharifian
Publisher : Springer
Page : 745 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811040566

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Advances in Cultural Linguistics by Farzad Sharifian Pdf

This groundbreaking collection represents the broad scope of cutting-edge research in Cultural Linguistics, a burgeoning field of interdisciplinary inquiry into the relationships between language and cultural cognition. The materials surveyed in its chapters demonstrate how cultural conceptualisations encoded in language relate to all aspects of human life - from emotion and embodiment to kinship, religion, marriage and politics, even the understanding of life and death. Cultural Linguistics draws on cognitive science, complexity science and distributed cognition, among other disciplines, to strengthen its theoretical and analytical base. The tools it has developed have worked toward insightful investigations into the cultural grounding of language in numerous applied domains, including World Englishes, cross-cultural/intercultural pragmatics, intercultural communication, Teaching English as an International Language (TEIL), and political discourse analysis.