This book deals with the construction of the "other" in European media at a time when the recently expanded EU is facing new political, economic and social challenges. The aim of the book is to document the diverse discursive forms of othering, ranging from differentiation to discrimination, that are directed against various "other Europeans" in both institutionalized media and such non-elite semi-public contexts as discussion forums and citizen blogs. Drawing on data from British, Polish, French, Czech, Italian, Hungarian, Spanish and Estonian contexts, the individual papers investigate how various social groupings - regions, nations, ethnicities, communities, cultures - are discursively constructed as "outsiders" rather than "insiders", as "them" rather than "us". While most of the papers are grounded in linguistics and critical discourse studies, the book will also appeal to numerous other social scientists interested in the interface between language, media and social issues.
Media representations of the "other" Europeans: Common themes and points of divergence
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Togetherness or othering?: COMMUNITY and comunità in the UK and Italian press
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Profiling of new Europeans in the British conservative press: A case study of the Daily Telegraph
págs. 103-120
Construing the Other: On the ideology-laden construals of Europeans in the Guardian
págs. 121-134
págs. 135-154
Negotiating an identity: The mediated discursive self-representation of the Polish immigrant community in the UK
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Othering others: Right-wing populism in UK media discourse on "new" immigration
págs. 207-234
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The Roma as ultimate European minority and ultimate outsider?: The framing of the Roma in newspapers following a human-rights violation
págs. 259-280
págs. 281-304
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