Discourse and transformation in Central and Eastern Europe / edited by Aleksandra Galasińska and Michał Krzyżanowski.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Galasińska, Aleksandra.

Krzyżanowski, Michał, 1977-

Series:

Language and globalization

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discourse analysis--Europe, Eastern.

Discourse analysis.

Mass media--Europe, Eastern.

Mass media.

Europe, Eastern--History--1989-.

Europe, Eastern.

Eastern Europe.

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 243 pages : illustrations, plans ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Summary:

This interdisciplinary volume explores the discursive construction of post-1989 social change in Central and Eastern Europe. Encompassing a set of national case studies on countries such as the Czech Republic, the former East Germany, Latvia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovenia and other Balkan states, the volume explores processes of post-communist transformation from the point of view of accelerating and unique dynamics of linguistic and discursive practices. Highlighting the micro-macro link, those practices are examined within - as well as at the cross-section of - the public domain (in politics, media, religion or civil society) and the private sphere (within individual experiences of post-communism). Providing in-depth, systematic analysis of discourse in different situations, contributions to the volume analyse diverse forms of social, political, cultural, economic or institutional transformation in post-communist contexts. The analysis points to several differences and similarities between ways in which discourse influences the unprecedented social change across Central and Eastern Europe.

Contents:

Theorising and analysing social change in Central and Eastern Europe : the contribution of critical discourse analysis / Michal Krzyżanowski and Ruth Wodak

Reflecting social heteroglossia and accommodating diverse audiences : a challenge to the media / Brigitta Busch

Contesting social space through language education debates in Latvia's media landscape / Gabrielle Hogan-Brun

The (re)construction of refugees in Slovenian media / Igor Ž. Žagar

On the "Europeanisation" of identity constructions in Polish political discourse after 1989 / Michal Krzyżanowski

Governing abandoned children : the discursive construction of space in the case of "babybox" / Igor Nosál

Critical juncture : Church Slavonic and the discourse of cultural preservation in post-Soviet Russia / Brian P. Bennett

Narrating transition in East German company histories / Helen Kelly-Holmes

"Mea culpa" : the social production of public disclosure and reconciliation with the past / Cristian Tileagă

Small stories fight back : narratives of Polish economic migration on an internet forum / Aleksandra Galasińska

Narratives of disenfranchised self in the Polish post-Communist reality / Dariusz Galasiński.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-239) and index.

ISBN:

9780230521025

0230521029

OCLC:

244414902

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