Resumen de The European "stranger" in Le Monde's headline discourse
Using systemic functional grammar, a qualitative/quantitative, top-down/bottom-up, three-pronged approach of Le Monde's print and online headline discourse on "Europe" during 2014 revealed the existence of three groups of "Other Europeans": non-EU member states, "visible" because of their political, economic or strategic weight, "quasi-invisible" States who joined the EU in 2004 or later, and non-EU members, invisible for their lack of political, economic or strategic weight. These various degrees of visibility, combined with the foregrounding of the European Union, point to the construction of "strangers within", whose quasi-invisibility and quality of "neither foe nor friend" may result in them being perceived as potentially "dangerous".
