Contesting Europe's Eastern Rim - Cultural Identities in Public Discourse

Combining theory-oriented and empirical approaches, this book analyzes modes of identity construction in public discourse, particularly focusing on national and cross-national rhetorical strategies related to European Union enlargement and EU policy towards southeast Europe.

About the author

Ljiljana Sarić is Professor of Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian at the University of Oslo. Her publications include Discourses of Intercultural Identity in Britain, Germany and Eastern Europe (co-editor, 2004), and Red-Letter Days and Discursive Identity Construction in Central Europe and the Balkans (co-editor, forthcoming).
Andreas Musolff is Professor of Intercultural Communication Studies at the University of East Anglia. His books include Metaphor, Nation and the Holocaust (2010) and Metaphor and Political Discourse (2004). He has co-edited Metaphor and Discourse (2009) and several volumes comparing British and German political debates about the European Union.
Stefan Manz is Senior Lecturer and Director of German Studies at Aston University. Publications include Discourses of Intercultural Identity in Britain, Germany and Eastern Europe (2004, co-edited) and Migration and Transfer from Germany to Britain, 1660â€"1914 (2007, co-edited).
Ingrid Hudabiunigg is Professor Emeritus of German as a foreign language and European studies at the Technical University of Chemnitz (Germany). She has published extensively on discursive identity construction.

Summary

Combining theory-oriented and empirical approaches, this book analyzes modes of identity construction in public discourse, particularly focusing on national and cross-national rhetorical strategies related to European Union enlargement and EU policy towards southeast Europe.

Product details

• Authors: Dr Ljiljana Saric, Ljiljana Saric
• Assisted by: Ingrid Hudabiunigg (Editor), Dr Stefan Manz (Editor), Stefan Manz (Editor), Andreas Musolff (Editor), Dr Andreas Musolff (Editor), Dr Ljiljana Saric (Editor), Ljiljana Saric (Editor)
• Publisher: Channel View Publications
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.11.2010
• EAN: 9781847693242
• ISBN: 978-1-84769-324-2
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 236 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 522 g
• Series: Multilingual Matters; Multilingual Matters
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries