Contesting Europe's Eastern Rim

Cultural Identities in Public Discourse

Edited by Dr. Ljiljana Saric, Dr. Andreas Musolff, Dr. Stefan Manz, Prof. Ingrid Hudabiunigg

Publication date:

15 November 2010

Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Dimensions:

234x156mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781847693242

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.

Introduction - Ljiljana Šarić, Stefan Manz, Andreas Musolff, and Ingrid Hudabiunigg

Part I

Chapter 1 Expellees, Counterfactualism, and Potatoes. Enlargement and Cross-National Debates in German-Polish Relations - Stefan Manz

Chapter 2 The Role of Metaphor in Shaping Cultural Stereotypes: A Case Study of French Public Discourse on European Union Enlargement - Steffen Buch and Uta Helfrich

Chapter 3 Metaphors in German and Lithuanian Discourse Concerning the Expansion of the European Union - Sandra Petraškaitė-Pabst Part II

Chapter 4 Domestic and Foreign Media Images of the Balkans - Ljiljana Šarić

Chapter 5 Naming Strategies and Neighboring Nations in the Croatian Media - Dubravka Kuna and Branko Kuna

Chapter 6 Mujahiddin in Our Midst: Bosnian Croats after the Wars of Succession - Daphne Winland

Chapter 7 Construction of Serbian and Montenegrin Identities through Layout and Photographs of Leading Politicians in Official Newspapers - Tatjana Radanović Felberg

Chapter 8 Krekism and the Construction of Slovenian National Identity: Newspaper Commentaries on Slovenia’s EU Integration - Andreja Vezovnik

Chapter 9 The Linguistic Image of the Balkans in the Polish Press in Discourse on European Union Expansion - Paweł Bąk

Chapter 10 The Eternal Outsider? Scenarios of Turkey’s Ambitions to Join the EU in the German Press - Andreas Musolff

Part III

Chapter 11 Contested Identities: Miroslav Krleža’s Two Europes vs. the Notion of Europe’s Edge - Ingrid Hudabiunigg

Chapter 12 Masculinity and the New Sensibility: Reading a Contemporary Montenegrin Novel - Biljana Jovanović Lauvstad

Chapter 13 The Rhetoric of Present Absence: Representing Jewishness in Post-Totalitarian Poland - Knut Andreas Grimstad Conclusion - Ljiljana Šarić

This is a timely book with a rich array of contributions exploring discursive constructions of identity in a number of countries on Europe’s Eastern rim. Thematically focused and integrated, the volume provides much needed perspectives on hitherto underresearched areas and languages. At the same time, the theoretical and methodological issues that it addresses will appeal more generally to scholars studying political and media discourse.