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Language, Normativity and Europeanisation: Discursive Evidence from the Eurovision Song Contest
Heiko Motschenbacher
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Description for Language, Normativity and Europeanisation: Discursive Evidence from the Eurovision Song Contest
Hardback. Series: Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse. Num Pages: 384 pages, 6 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; CFDM; CFGR; JMS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 219 x 30. Weight in Grams: 634.
This book focuses on linguistic practices of identity construction in a popular culture media context, the Eurovision Song Contest. Subscribing to a normativity-based approach to critical discourse analysis, it studies Europeanisation as it surfaces at the discursive interface of European, national and sexual identities in Eurovision lyrics and performances. Research in critical discourse analysis that deals with Europeanisation, or the discursive work involved in European identity formation, has so far mainly studied data from EU political contexts that illustrate a top-down approach to what Europeanness means. The present book complements this earlier research in several ways, focusing on the linguistic ... Read more
This book focuses on linguistic practices of identity construction in a popular culture media context, the Eurovision Song Contest. Subscribing to a normativity-based approach to critical discourse analysis, it studies Europeanisation as it surfaces at the discursive interface of European, national and sexual identities in Eurovision lyrics and performances. Research in critical discourse analysis that deals with Europeanisation, or the discursive work involved in European identity formation, has so far mainly studied data from EU political contexts that illustrate a top-down approach to what Europeanness means. The present book complements this earlier research in several ways, focusing on the linguistic ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Series
Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137563002
SKU
V9781137563002
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99-15
About Heiko Motschenbacher
Heiko Motschenbacher is a lecturer at Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, where he completed his PhD and post-doc research. He has held temporary professorships of English Linguistics at universities in Bayreuth, Siegen, Braunschweig and Mainz. He is founder and co-editor of theJournal of Language and Sexuality (with William L. Leap). Among his recent publications are the monographs Language,Gender and Sexual ... Read more
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