This book offers a comparative study of the political debate on the Euro crisis in the press. In the tradition of Critical Discourse Analysis, it investigates the ways in which discourse produces and reproduces social domination, and demystifies the hegemony of specific discourses. Combining quantitative content-based and qualitative text-based analyses, the book examines the discursive constructions of the crisis in a selection of broadsheet newspapers in Germany, Poland, and the UK, and discloses their ideological foundations. The analysis of the representations of the crisis, social actors and their agency, and legitimating strategies, including the use of metaphors, demonstrates how neoliberalism determined the hegemonic discourse on the Euro crisis. It resulted in ideologically biased discursive constructions that created and legitimised an image of non-agentic social change. The book will appeal to an international audience of discourse and media studies. It will be of interest to university teachers, graduate and undergraduate students and researchers of international and comparative media studies, political communication, linguistics, and politics.
Author(s): Katarzyna Sobieraj
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 184
City: Cham
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Contents
About the Author
List of Figures
List of Tables
Chapter 1: Introduction
EU and Its Crises
Summary of Main Aims, Methods and Tools
Research Design
Structure of the Book
References
Chapter 2: Approaching Discourse Analysis of the Euro Crisis
Notion of Crisis
2008 Financial and Economic Crisis and New Rules of the Game
Europeanisation of Debate on the Euro Crisis
Euro Crisis as Mediatised Conflict
Power and Ideology in Critical Discourse Studies
Notions of Text, Discourse and Context
Media Models and Crises
References
Chapter 3: Delineating the Boundaries of Discourse
Main Root of the Crisis
Main Responsibility for Solving the Crisis
Main Mechanism for Responding to the Crisis
Primary Broader Response to the Crisis
Main Benefit from the Euro Currency
Main Harmful Consequence from the Euro Currency
Primary Beneficiary from the Euro Crisis
Primary Sufferer from the Euro Crises
Main Geopolitical Frames
Main Portrayal of the Euro Zone Institutions
Main Portrayal of the European Central Bank
Consequences of the Rescue Measures
Initial Findings and Conclusions
Chapter 4: Dimensions of the Euro Crisis
Sample Description
Situation in Italy
Situation in Greece
Roots of the Euro Crisis
Solutions to the Euro Crisis
Reforms
Fiscal and Political Union
Return to National Currencies
Role of the European Central Bank
Consequences of the Euro Crisis
Temporal and Spatial Representations of the Euro Crisis
Representation of Time
Representation of Space
Summary
References
Primary Sources
Chapter 5: Social Actors in the Euro Crisis
Crisis as a Major Activated Actor
Governments as Activated Players
Passivation of Greeks
Summary and Implications
References
List of Primary Sources
Chapter 6: Policy Legitimation in the Euro Crisis Discourse
Legitimation in CDA Research
Neoliberal Legitimation of the Euro Crisis
Categories of Legitimation
Authorisation
Moral Evaluation
Rationalisation
Mythopoesis
Combination of Legitimation Categories
Pre-legitimation
Summary and Preliminary Conclusions
References
List of Primary Sources
Chapter 7: Metaphors of the Euro Crisis
Metaphorical Frames in the Euro Crisis Discourse
Natural Disaster
Disease
War
Construction
Game and Sports
Orientational Metaphors
Other Metaphors
Concluding Remarks: Power of Metaphors
References
List of Primary Sources
Chapter 8: Conclusions
Alternative Stories of the Euro Crisis
Limitations and Suggestions for Further Research
References
Primary Sources
Annex: Methodology
Selection of Newspapers
Selection of Time Periods
Selection of Content
Search Results
Number of articles by newspaper: Germany
Number of articles by newspaper: Poland
Number of articles by newspaper: The United Kingdom
Codebook
Reliability Test
Selection of the Period for In-depth Analysis
References
Index
