Discursive constructions of identity in European politics

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Bibliographic Details
Group Author: Mole Richard C. M 1968-
Published: Palgrave Macmillan,
Publisher Address: Basingstoke [England]
Publication Dates: 2007.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Language and globalization
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Carrier Form: xiii, 236 p.: ill. ; 23 cm.
ISBN: 0230517064 (alk. paper)
9780230517066 (alk. paper)
Index Number: D750
CLC: D750.2
D75
Call Number: D75/D611-2
Contents: "This book aims to bring together specialists to discuss the discursive construction of identities and analyse the impact of specific identity discourses on various socio-political issues in Europe. While most analyses of the relationship between discourse and identity have been conducted by linguists and communications scholars, this volume seeks also to show how other disciplines (literature, media, sociology, conceptual history, politics and international relations in addition to critical discourse analysis and communications) examine the social construction of identity and meaning throug
Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-232) and index.
Discursive identities/identity discourses and political power / Richard Mole -- A discourse theory of ethnic identity / Don Ellis -- The tale-end of history : literary form, historiography and the Danish (post)-national imagination / C. Claire Thomson -- 'Doing Europe' : the discursive construction of European identities / Ruth Wodak -- Shifting discourses : banal nationalism and cultural intimacy in Greek television news and everyday life / Mirca Madianou -- The power of metaphor : consent, dissent and revolution / Erik Ringmar -- Post-liberal anxieties and discourses of peoplehood in Europ