Overview
Sheds new light on the discursive construction of European identity, particularly in times of financial and sociopolitical crisis
Combines Argumentation theories, Gramscian thought and a discourse-historical approach, in a critical discourse analysis of media discourses
Speaks across disciplines to scholarship on migration, nationalism, Islamophobia, identity and Europe
Examines case studies in British, French and Greek newspapers
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Critical Discourse Analysis
- discourse-historical approach
- European identity
- nationalism
- hegemonic discourses
- supranational identities
- Islamist terrorism
- ultranationalism
- public discourse
- Antonio Gramsci
- Aristotle
- topos
- media discourse
- Islamophobia
- migration
- European Union
- fallacy
- Turkey
- argumentation
- Fortress Europe
- discourse analysis
About this book
This book combines media studies and linguistics with theories of national and supranational identity to offer an interdisciplinary approach to the study of European identity/ies and news discourses. Taking representations of ‘Islamist terrorism’ and Turkey’s accession to the European Union as case studies, it analyses the discursive construction of supranational European identity through the discursive distinction of ‘Us’ and ‘Them’. Moreover, it compares the media’s representations of the ‘Other’ in different socio-political moments in Europe- from times of European integration (2004-5) to the European dystopia (2015-16) through the discourse analysis of specific Greek, British and French newspapers. This timely work synthesizes classic argumentative approaches and Gramscian thought in the study of media discourses by focusing on the Aristotelian concept of topos and introducing the concept of ‘hegemonic knowledge’. This pioneering work will appeal to scholars across the fields of linguistics, social anthropology, European politics, and media studies.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: European Identity and the Representation of Islam in the Mainstream Press
Book Subtitle: Argumentation and Media Discourse
Authors: Salomi Boukala
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93314-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-93313-9Published: 26 July 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06638-3Published: 20 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-93314-6Published: 17 July 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 347
Topics: Discourse Analysis, Media and Communication, Sociolinguistics, European Union Politics, Social Anthropology, Migration