The Discursive Construction of European Identities - A Multi-Level Approach to Discourse and Identity in the Transforming European Union

This book looks at the discursive construction of European identities in a variety of institutional and non-institutional contexts and through a variety of social and political actors. Its multilevel and interdisciplinary approach - rooted in the Discourse-Historical tradition of Critical Discourse Analysis - allows for a comparison of identity constructions at different levels of Europe-s social and political organisation and in different modes of communication. The book analyses discourses as diverse as those of the EU politicians, of Europe-s national media as well as of migrants living in Europe. It offers a set of integrated models and analytical procedures which bring to the fore the inherent dynamism and complexity of both -bottom-up- and -top-down- European identity constructions.