Discourse and Transformation in Central and Eastern Europe

by Galasinska, Aleksandra; Krzyzanowski, Michal; Wright, Sue; Kelly-Holmes, Helen

• ISBN13: 9780230521025
• ISBN10: 0230521029
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-02-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This volume explores the discursive nature of post-1989 social change in Central and Eastern Europe. Through a set of national case studies, the construction of post-communist transformation is explored from the point of view of accelerating and unique dynamics of linguistic and discursive practices.

Author Biography

ALEKSANDRA GALASINSKA is Senior Research Fellow in European Studies at the History and Governance Research Institute, University of Wolverhampton, UK. Her main research interests focus on ethnographic and discursive aspects of lived experience of post-communism and post-enlargement migration.

MICHAL KRZYZANOWSKI is Research Fellow at the Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University, UK, and Assistant Professor at the School of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan. His research focuses on methods of critical text and discourse analysis and its application to the study of social, political and institutional change in Europe.

Table of Contents

Illustrations	p. vii
Contributors	p. viii
Introduction: Discourses of Social and Political Transformation in the 'New Europe'	p. 1
Theorising and Analysing Social Change in Central and Eastern Europe: The Contribution of Critical Discourse Analysis	p. 17
Transformation(s) of the Public Sphere (I) - Discourses of Media and Public Policy
Reflecting Social Heteroglossia and Accommodating Diverse Audiences - a Challenge to the Media	p. 43
Contesting Social Space through Language Education Debates in Latvia's Media Landscape	p. 59
The (Re)construction of Refugees in Slovenian Media	p. 75
Transformation(s) of the Public Sphere (II) - Discourses of Politics, Institutions and Economy
On the 'Europeanisation' of Identity Constructions in Polish Political Discourse after 1989	p. 95
Governing Abandoned Children: The Discursive Construction of Space in the Case of 'Babybox'	p. 114
Critical Juncture: Church Slavonic and the Discourse of Cultural Preservation in Post-Soviet Russia	p. 137
Narrating Transition in East German Company Histories	p. 154
Transformation(s) of the Semi-public/Semi-private and Private Spheres - Discourse and the Experience of Transformation
'Mea Culpa': The Social Production of Public Disclosure and Reconciliation with the Past	p. 173
Small Stories Fight Back: Narratives of Polish Economic Migration on an Internet Forum	p. 188
Narratives of Disenfranchised Self in the Polish Post-Communist Reality	p. 204
Bibliography	p. 218
Index	p. 241
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