Resumen de Negotiating an identity: The mediated discursive self-representation of the Polish immigrant community in the UK
The chapter investigates the mediated entextualizations of the identities of Polish immigrants to the UK in the period of post-crisis politics and economic reforms. The media discourse studied is collected from MojaWyspa.co.uk (MyIsland), one of the largest Polish-language online hubs designed for the substantial Polish community living on the British Isles. The study shows which discursive strategies of othering are employed to delimit the Polish immigrants' collective identity, which self/other-presentation techniques are used, and how this group identity is legitimized argumentatively. It examines the linguistic realizations of self/other reference, active/passive and positive/negative predication strategies, topoi and argumentative schema for self-legitimization and various framing devices, as well as the mitigation of the sense of identity crisis through temporality. It reveals the diversity of Polish immigrants� self-presentation techniques and proves the Polish migrant identity to be in the process of renegotiation.
