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Mihaela Culea
Linguistic Representations and
Contested Identities in the Media
The Special Case of South-Eastern Europeans
as ‘Others’ in the British Press
2016. 238 pages. € 24,80
ISBN 978-3-86628-569-9
The primary targeted readership of this book includes post-graduate
students and academics interested in the fields of discourse analysis, media studies,
cultural studies, as well as European studies, due to its particular focus on
the linguistic representations of South-Eastern Europeans as ‘others’ in a
corpus of online press texts mainly from British national newspapers that cover
the time-frame 2012-2014. Theoretical discussions in the five major chapters of
the book cover the targeted topics in relation to the broader EU area, whereas
the empirical analyses conducted focus on the media representation of South-Eastern
national identities (for the most part) and the British identity (to a lesser
extent). While exploring the press representation of these contested national
identities by using the triangulation method composed of conceptual metaphor,
stereotypical representation and moral panic discourse, the analysis of the
corpus shows that South-Eastern national identities are constructed in the
British press as the ‘others’, namely, as those whose identity is criticized, opposed,
disputed, and negatively evaluated. The particulars of the research problem include
aspects related to the definition of the concepts of European identity and ‘otherness’,
the ways in which ‘otherness’ is talked about and constructed in the media
discourse (at large) and the press discourse (in particular), the way in which
discourse constructions are linked to ideology, social practices, institutions
and the operation of social power, the extent to which ‘otherness’ is related
to immigration (with a special focus on Romanian immigration), or the ways in
which immigration is perceived as a threat or conceived as a problem by means
of special linguistic choices.
Dr. Mihaela CULEA is a lecturer at the Department of Foreign Languages
and Literatures, Faculty of Letters, “VasileAlecsandri” University of
Bacău. In 2008 she obtained her PhD at “Al.I. Cuza” University of Iași, Romania, for her thesis in English Literature
(Types and Spaces in Eighteenth-Century English Narratives). Her teaching and
research interests include English literature and literature-related subjects,
as well as British cultural history, cultural studies, or stylistics of text
and discourse.
Look as well to
Mihaela Culea and Andreia-Irina Suciu
INTRODUCTION
TO LITERARY INTERPRETATION.
FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE
NARRATIVE STRATEGIES,
DISCOURSE PRESENTATION AND TROPES
2014. 318 pages. € 24,80
ISBN 978-3-86628-507-1
Andreia-Irina Suciu and Mihaela Culea
LITERARY
READINGS: KEY TERMS FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE
2014. 318
pages. € 24,80
ISBN 978-3-86628-506-4
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