Values of the 2004 E.U. Enlargement in Media Discourse

• Authors: Maciej Kielar
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Values and ideology are assumed to be discursive phenomena. Therefore, the aim of the analysis in the present paper is to present linguistic markers of values that are responsible for organisation of various spheres of life, and the same time, for the shape of ideology of the 2004 EU enlargement as it has been presented in the print media.To exemplify these assumptions, a Press release corpus consisting of some 30,000 words was gathered. It encompasses articles published between 15 April and 7 May 2004 which represent such journalistic genres as press note, report, commentary, report with elements of commentary and coverage. In the course of the study, expressions pointing to particular spheres of life were identified and analysed as referring to particular values of the E.U.

Keywords

EN

Discourse; values; European Union; mass media; journalism

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Journal: Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 46
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 313-330

Dates

published

2010-09-01

online

2010-09-22

Contributors

author

Maciej Kielar

• Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań

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• The Daily Mail
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• The Guardian
• The Independent
• The Irish Independent
• The Irish Times
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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10010-010-0017-3