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Title European identity : what the media say / edited by Paul Bayley, Geoffrey Williams
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (336 pages)
Series IntUne, integrated and united
IntUne (Oxford University Press)
Contents Introduction: Exploring the IntUne corpus / Paul Bayley and Geoffrey Williams -- Representations of representation: European institutions in the French and British press / Nathalie Dugalès and Gordon Tucker -- Nation and supernation: a tale of three Europes / Geoffrey Williams, Roberta Piazza, and Delphine Giuliani -- Discourses of European identity in British, Italian, and French TV news / Joanna Thornborrow, Louann Haarman, and Alison Duguid -- Representing Europe: its people and its citizens. Does "Europe" have a common historical identity? / Anna Marchi and Alan Partington -- Semantic constructions of citizenship in the British, French, and Italian press / Paul Bayley, Delphine Giuliani, and Vanessa Serret -- Us and them: how immigrants are constructed in British and Italian newspapers / John Morley and Charlotte Taylor -- We in the Union: a Polish perspective on identity / Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk and Jerzy Tomaszczyk -- Legitimated persons and Vox Populi attitudes towards Europe in French, Italian, Polish, and UK tv news / Marco Venuti [and others] -- Conclusions: speaking in tongues about Europe / John Morley
Summary 'European Identity' examines how Europe is represented linguistically in the news media of France, Italy, Poland, and the UK, through the use of an electronic corpus built from newspapers and TV news transcripts. The aim is to demonstrate how linguistic analysis can make a key contribution to the analysis of political issues
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Group identity -- European Union countries
Group identity in mass media
Mass media and language.
Corpora (Linguistics)
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Journalism.
Corpora (Linguistics)
Group identity
Mass media and language
European Union countries
Form Electronic book
Author Bayley, Paul.
Williams, Geoffrey
ISBN 9780199602308
0199602301
9780191624513
0191624519
9780191739156
0191739154