Discourse and Transformation in Central and Eastern Europe

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

   PDF

2. Introduction: Discourses of Social and Political Transformation in the ‘New Europe’

   1. Introduction: Discourses of Social and Political Transformation in the ‘New Europe’

      • Michał Krzyżanowski, Aleksandra Galasińska

      Pages 1-16

3. Theorising and Analysing Social Change in Central and Eastern Europe: The Contribution of Critical Discourse Analysis

   1. Theorising and Analysing Social Change in Central and Eastern Europe: The Contribution of Critical Discourse Analysis

      • Michał Krzyżanowski, Ruth Wodak

      Pages 17-39

4. Transformation(s) of the Public Sphere (I) — Discourses of Media and Public Policy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 41-41

      PDF

   2. Reflecting Social Heteroglossia and Accommodating Diverse Audiences — a Challenge to the Media

      • Brigitta Busch

      Pages 43-58

   3. Contesting Social Space through Language Education Debates in Latvia’s Media Landscape

      • Gabrielle Hogan-Brun

      Pages 59-74

   4. The (Re)construction of Refugees in Slovenian Media

      • Igor Ž. Žagar

      Pages 75-92

5. Transformation(s) of the Public Sphere (II) — Discourses of Politics, Institutions and Economy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93

      PDF

   2. On the ‘Europeanisation’ of Identity Constructions in Polish Political Discourse after 1989

      • Michał Krzyżanowski

      Pages 95-113

   3. Governing Abandoned Children: The Discursive Construction of Space in the Case of ‘Babybox’

      • Igor Nosál

      Pages 114-136

   4. Critical Juncture: Church Slavonic and the Discourse of Cultural Preservation in Post-Soviet Russia

      • Brian P. Bennett

      Pages 137-153

   5. Narrating Transition in East German Company Histories

      • Helen Kelly-Holmes

      Pages 154-170

6. Transformation(s) of the Semi-public/Semi-private and Private Spheres — Discourse and the Experience of Transformation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-171

      PDF

   2. ‘Mea Culpa’: The Social Production of Public Disclosure and Reconciliation with the Past

      • Cristian Tileagǎ

      Pages 173-187

   3. Small Stories Fight Back: Narratives of Polish Economic Migration on an Internet Forum

      • Aleksandra Galasińska

      Pages 188-203

   4. Narratives of Disenfranchised Self in the Polish Post-Communist Reality

      • Dariusz Galasiński

      Pages 204-217

7. Back Matter

   Pages 218-243

   PDF

This volume explores the discursive nature of post-1989 social change in Central and Eastern Europe. Through a set of national case studies, the construction of post-communist transformation is explored from the point of view of accelerating and unique dynamics of linguistic and discursive practices.

• children
• discourse
• education
• Europe
• German
• identity
• Institution
• Internet
• migration
• Nation
• nature
• politics
• social change
• transformation

• History and Governance Research Institute, University of Wolverhampton, UK

  Aleksandra Galasińska

• Lancaster University, UK

  Michał Krzyżanowski

• School of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland

  Michał Krzyżanowski

BRIAN P. BENNETT Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Niagara University, USA BRIGITTA BUSCH Senior Research Fellow, Department of Applied Linguistics, University of Vienna, Austria DARIUSZ GALASI?SKI Professor of Discourse and Cultural Studies, University of Wolverhampton, UK GABRIELLE HOGAN-BRUN Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bristol, UK HELEN KELLY-HOLMES Lecturer in Sociolinguistics with New Media, University of Limerick, Ireland IGOR NOSÁL Assistant Professor of Sociology, Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University at Brno, Czech Republic CRISTIAN TILEAG? Lecturer in the School of Psychology, University of East London, UK RUTH WODAK Distinguished Professor of Discourse Studies, Lancaster University, UK IGOR . AGAR Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Center for Discourse Studies at the Educational Research Institute, and Professor in Rhetoric and Argumentation at the Faculty of the Humanities, University of Primorska, Slovenia

Policies and ethics