The spiral of 'anti-other rhetoric' : discourses of identity and the international media echo / Elisabeth Le.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Le, Elisabeth.

Series:

Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture ; v. 22.

Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture, 1569-9463 ; v. 22

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media and world politics.

Mass media and public opinion.

Discourse analysis.

Public opinion--United States.

Public opinion.

Public opinion--Russia (Federation).

Public opinion--France.

World politics--1989-.

World politics.

Physical Description:

xii, 280 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How do media inform our representations of the Other and how does this influence intercultural / international relations? While officially dialogues between different national societies are conducted by diplomats in bilateral and multilateral settings, in practice journalists also participate every day in such dialogues through the phenomenon of the "international media echo" in which they report on each others' societies. Until now, media have only been investigated for their potential role in the foreign policy of specific states. In a case study involving media in three national cultures and languages (French, American and Russian), this book presents an interdisciplinary framework that combines quantitative and qualitative analyses for the study of the international media echo in an intercultural / international relations perspective. In particular, the fundamental functioning of "spirals of anti-Other rhetoric", i.e. media wars, is examined in a Critical Discourse Analysis approach completed with Social Identity Theory and International Relations theories.

Contents:

The Spiral of 'Anti-Other Rhetoric'

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Dedication

Table of contents

Foreword

Media, international relations, collective memories, and Critical Discourse Analysis

1.1. Media and international relations

1.1.1. Theoretical approaches

1.1.2. The ``international media echo''

1.1.3. Interacting cascading networks model

1.2. Media and collective memories

1.3. Critical Discourse Analysis

1.4. Empirical study of the international media echo: Presentation

National and international contexts for the international media echo

2.1. Russian society

2.1.1. Russia in the 1990s

2.1.2. Russia and the West

2.2. French society

2.2.1. French foreign policy

2.2.2. Public opinion

2.2.3. Intellectuals

2.2.4. Human rights and ``Liberté, égalité, fraternité''

2.3. American society

2.3.1. American foreign policy

2.3.2. Public opinion

2.3.3. The American concept of liberal democracy

2.4. Print elite media

2.4.1. Le Monde

2.4.2. The New York Times

2.4.3. Russian print elite media

2.5. General context at the end of the 1990s

Russia in Le Monde and The New York Times

3.1. Linguistic methodology

3.1.1. Coherence analysis

3.1.2. Coding at the macrostructural level

3.1.3. Coding at the all-sentence level

3.1.4. Coding complementarity

3.1.5. Verification of the analyses

3.2. Le Monde's and The New York Times' perspectives

3.2.1. Main trends

3.2.2. Lines of argumentation

3.2.3. Construction of the debate

3.2.4. Representation of Russia

3.2.5. Representation of Us

3.2.6. Le Monde's and The New York Times' positions

3.3. Different conceptual frameworks

Le Monde's and The New York Times' editorials in their national societies

4.1. French society

4.1.1. French foreign policy

4.1.2. Intellectuals.

4.1.3. French public opinion

4.1.4. Le Monde's editorials on Russia and French society

4.2. American society

4.2.1. American foreign policy

4.2.2. Elites

4.2.3. Public opinion

4.2.4. The New York Times' editorials on Russia and American society

4.3. Significance of Le Monde's and The New York Times' editorials on Russia

Russian reactions to the West

5.1. Russian print elite media and the West in 1999-2001

5.1.1. Izvestija

5.1.2. Nezavisimaja Gazeta

5.1.3. Segodnja

5.1.4. Media coverage of Western and Russian intellectuals

5.1.5. Representation of a turning point in the relations between Russia and France

5.1.6. An example of ``international media echo'' stricto sensu: Izvestija and Le Monde

5.2. Russian official position

5.2.1. Russian foreign policy in 1999-2002

5.2.2. Russian government and media

5.3. Russian public opinion

5.3.1. Relation to the West in connection to the second Chechen war

5.3.2. Attitude towards France and the USA

5.3.3. Relations to the West from the societal / economic point of view

5.3.4. Impact of the West

5.3.5. Russia's place in the world

5.4. Russia and the West in 1999-2001

Crossing cultural and disciplinary boundaries

6.1. The spiral of ``anti-Other rhetoric''

6.1.1. Its source

6.1.2. Its development

6.1.3. Its weakening

6.1.4. Its long-time effects

6.1.5. Can it be avoided?

6.2. Social identity theory and the international media echo

6.3. Realism, constructivism and public spheres

6.3.1. Realism

6.3.2. Constructivism

6.3.3. Realism and constructivism as complementary approaches

6.3.4. France, the USA and Russia in 1999-2001

6.4. Media identities on the international stage

6.5. Crossing boundaries

Editorials

Le Monde

The New York Times

Chronology

1999

2000

2001

Coherence analysis.

a3.1. Relations of coherence

a3.2. Definitions

a3.2.1. Macrostructural basis and text division

a3.2.2. Theme

a3.2.3. Macrostructure

a3.3. Hierarchical structure of a text

a3.4. Coding

a3.5. Example: ``The Truth About a Hero's Death'' (NYT, 29 November 2000)

Analysis at the all-sentence level

Summary generated from the analysis at the all-sentence level

Analysis at the macrostructural level

Abstract generated from the analysis at the macrostructural level

Content coding

a4.1. Ideological square at the macrostructural level

Examples

a4.2. Parties appearing in the argumentation

a4.2.1. Writers' voices

a4.2.2. Other voices

a4.2.3. Specific addressees

a4.2.4. Interactions at the macrostructural level

a4.3. Representation of Russia in terms of its history

Negative representation of Russia

a5.1. Le Monde

a5.2. The New York Times

Notes

-24pt

References

Index

The series Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-277) and index.

ISBN:

9786612155482

9781282155480

1282155482

9789027293367

9027293368

OCLC:

320321541