[Corpora-List] (New Book) European Identity: What the Media Say, edited by Paul Bayley and Geoffrey Williams

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European Identity: What the Media Say
Editors: Paul Bayley, University of Bologna, Forli and Geoffrey 
Williams, University of South Brittany
July 2012

European Identity examines how Europe is represented linguistically in 
the news media of four EU countries, France, Italy, Poland, and the UK, 
through the use of an electronic corpus built from newspapers and 
television news transcripts. This multilingual comparable corpus, is 
composed of the entire contents of four newspapers published in each 
country, collected over two periods of three months, and the 
transcriptions of two TV news broadcasts, collected over two periods of 
two months. The theoretical and methodological frameworks adopted 
include discourse analysis, corpus linguistics and corpus-assisted 
discourse analysis. The individual chapters investigate various aspects 
of European identity as it is discursively construed in the news media 
of the different countries, such as Europe as a political and geographic 
entity, European Union institutions, European history, citizenship, and 
immigration. Based on a bottom-up orientation and using both 
quantitative and qualitative methods, all chapters but one use a 
comparative approach to the data, juxtaposing the journalist 
representations of Europe in two or more languages. The fundamental aim 
of the volume is to demonstrate how linguistic analysis, and in 
particular the study of large amounts of linguistic data, can make a 
vital contribution to the analysis of political and social issues.

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Contents

1. Introduction: Exploring the IntUne corpus
Paul Bayley and Geoffrey Williams

Part I Representing Europe: Its nations and its institutions

2. Representations of representation: European institutions in the 
French and British press
Nathalie Dugalès and Gordon Tucker

3. Nation and supernation: A tale of three Europes
Geoffrey Williams, Roberta Piazza, and Delphine Giuliani

4. Discourses of European identity in British, Italian, and French TV news
Joanna Thornborrow, Louann Haarman, and Alison Duguid

5. Does ‘Europe’ have a common historical identity?
Anna Marchi and Alan Partington

Part II Representing Europe: Its people and its citizens

6. Semantic constructions of citizenship in the British, French, and 
Italian press
Paul Bayley, Delphine Giuliani, and Vanessa Serret

7. Us and them: How immigrants are constructed in British and Italian 
newspapers
John Morley and Charlotte Taylor

8. We in the Union: A Polish perspective on identity
Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk and Jerzy Tomaszczyk

9. Legitimated Persons and Vox Populi attitudes towards Europe in 
French, Italian, Polish, and UK TV news
Marco Venuti, Silvia de Candia, Mikołaj Deckert, and Christophe Ropers

10 Conclusions: Speaking in tongues about Europe
John Morley



Series editors: Maurizio Cotta and Pierangelo Isernia, (CIRCaP – 
University of Siena)

Books in the series include:

The Europe of Elites: A Study into the Europeanness of Europe's 
Political and Economic Elites
Edited by Heinrich Best, György Lengyel, and Luca Verzichelli

The Europeanization of National Polities?: Citizenship and Support in a 
Post-Enlargement Union
Edited by David Sanders, Paolo Bellucci, Gábor Tóka, and Mariano Torcal

European Identity: What the Media Say
Edited by Paul Bayley and Geoffrey Williams

Citizens and the European Polity: Mass Attitudes Towards the European 
and National Polities
Edited by David Sanders, Pedro Magalhães, and Gábor Tóka


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