Chapter 3. The European “stranger” in Le Monde ’s headline discourse
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Élisabeth Le
Abstract
Using systemic functional grammar, a qualitative/quantitative, top-down/bottom-up, three-pronged approach of Le Monde’s print and online headline discourse on “Europe” during 2014 revealed the existence of three groups of “Other Europeans”: non-EU member states, “visible” because of their political, economic or strategic weight, “quasi-invisible” States who joined the EU in 2004 or later, and non-EU members, invisible for their lack of political, economic or strategic weight. These various degrees of visibility, combined with the foregrounding of the European Union, point to the construction of “strangers within”, whose quasi-invisibility and quality of “neither foe nor friend” may result in them being perceived as potentially “dangerous”.
Abstract
Using systemic functional grammar, a qualitative/quantitative, top-down/bottom-up, three-pronged approach of Le Monde’s print and online headline discourse on “Europe” during 2014 revealed the existence of three groups of “Other Europeans”: non-EU member states, “visible” because of their political, economic or strategic weight, “quasi-invisible” States who joined the EU in 2004 or later, and non-EU members, invisible for their lack of political, economic or strategic weight. These various degrees of visibility, combined with the foregrounding of the European Union, point to the construction of “strangers within”, whose quasi-invisibility and quality of “neither foe nor friend” may result in them being perceived as potentially “dangerous”.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Media representations of the “other” Europeans 1
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Part I. Othering as political and media practice
- Chapter 1. Orbán’s Hungary 25
- Chapter 2. Togetherness or othering? 55
- Chapter 3. The European “stranger” in Le Monde ’s headline discourse 81
- Chapter 4. Profiling of new Europeans in the British conservative press 103
- Chapter 5. Construing the Other 121
- Chapter 6. Discursive legitimation of criminalization and victimization of sub-Saharan immigrants in Spanish El País and ABC newspapers 135
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Part II. Othering as interpersonal and interactional practice
- Chapter 7. Negotiating an identity 157
- Chapter 8. Representations of Eastern Europeans in the UK in reader comments of two British online newspapers 183
- Chapter 9. Othering others 207
- Chapter 10. The othering of Roma migrants in British and Czech online news discussion forums 235
- Chapter 11. The Roma as ultimate European minority and ultimate outsider? 259
- Chapter 12. Othering in Estonian online discussions about refugees 281
- Contributors 305
- Index 309
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Media representations of the “other” Europeans 1
-
Part I. Othering as political and media practice
- Chapter 1. Orbán’s Hungary 25
- Chapter 2. Togetherness or othering? 55
- Chapter 3. The European “stranger” in Le Monde ’s headline discourse 81
- Chapter 4. Profiling of new Europeans in the British conservative press 103
- Chapter 5. Construing the Other 121
- Chapter 6. Discursive legitimation of criminalization and victimization of sub-Saharan immigrants in Spanish El País and ABC newspapers 135
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Part II. Othering as interpersonal and interactional practice
- Chapter 7. Negotiating an identity 157
- Chapter 8. Representations of Eastern Europeans in the UK in reader comments of two British online newspapers 183
- Chapter 9. Othering others 207
- Chapter 10. The othering of Roma migrants in British and Czech online news discussion forums 235
- Chapter 11. The Roma as ultimate European minority and ultimate outsider? 259
- Chapter 12. Othering in Estonian online discussions about refugees 281
- Contributors 305
- Index 309
