The Discourse of Europe: Talk and Text in Everyday Life

The Discourse of Europe......Page 2
Editorial page......Page 3
Title page......Page 4
LCC data......Page 5
Dedication page......Page 6
Table of contents......Page 8
Background......Page 10
Europe, state and the individual......Page 11
What is it to be European?......Page 13
Europe? What’s the answer? What’s the question?......Page 16
The people’s voice......Page 17
Overview of chapters......Page 19
References......Page 23
Introduction......Page 26
Ideal citizenship......Page 27
Media as fringe condition......Page 33
Politics as center and periphery......Page 36
Emotional politics......Page 40
Flashes of defiance......Page 42
Old ideas, new experiences......Page 46
References......Page 54
Introduction......Page 58
The changing nature of political communication in the age of the Internet......Page 59
Political competition in action: Self vs. others’ presentation......Page 61
Aims and methodology......Page 64
The strategies of political marketing: How the parties sell themselves on the web......Page 66
Discussion: The voter caught in the web of the parties......Page 77
From Italy to the world passing through Europe: New narrative political strategies......Page 81
Conclusions: From the language of action to a European rhetoric......Page 82
References......Page 83
Introduction......Page 88
Self and identity......Page 89
Monitoring the narrative performance of European identity......Page 92
Are Europeans an ethnic group?......Page 96
EU says......Page 98
References......Page 102
Introduction......Page 104
Methodology......Page 105
Social and political processes......Page 106
Rejection......Page 107
Political rejection......Page 108
Civilisation......Page 112
The Polish complex?......Page 116
Conclusions......Page 118
References......Page 119
Introduction......Page 122
Classical rhetoric: A brief overview......Page 124
Data......Page 126
Use of topoi......Page 128
Memory and invention......Page 132
Construction of audience and identities......Page 133
Conclusion......Page 136
References......Page 138
Introduction......Page 140
Theoretical considerations......Page 141
The everyday and narratives......Page 142
1994–2001: Authoritative discourses, dialogised heteroglossias and hybridisation in and of Greece......Page 144
1996–2001: The reformative phase and face of PASOK – aspects of there modelling of Greek identity......Page 151
Conclusion: Towards which identity?......Page 156
References......Page 157
Appendix 1. Examples of literature on the EMU and Euro......Page 158
Appendix 2......Page 160
Appendix 3......Page 161
Introduction......Page 162
European identity, European differences and multiculturalism......Page 163
Trieste: A historical and socio-linguistic outline......Page 166
Our case study......Page 168
Images of the province of Trieste......Page 169
Awareness of the composite nature of the population......Page 171
Self- and other-images in Italian and Slovene discourse......Page 173
Conditions for the recognition of the other ‘s point of view......Page 175
Conclusions......Page 178
References......Page 179
Introduction......Page 182
Ulster Scots: The sociolinguistic context......Page 183
Minority languages in Europe......Page 184
Narrative discourse......Page 187
Narratives of Ulster Scots language......Page 189
Discussion......Page 201
References......Page 203
Appendix: transcription conventions......Page 205
Index......Page 206
The series Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture......Page 210