What is it about?
This book contains work from the media group of IntUne - a major EC funded FP6 project into the nature of European citizenship. Media were analyzed from four languages: English, French. Italian and Polish. The core here is corpus linguistics of newspaper and tv news using a fully POS tagged corpus with an complete taxonomy of contents.
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Why is it important?
This is interdisciplinary work at its best, bringing the power and insights of Sinclairian corpus-driven analyses to the assistance of political and sociological sciences. The methods are innovative, the content important in showing the shortcomings of the press is portraying Europe, and also the refusal to look at the reality of what Europe as a political unit is. The perspectives come formational presses and are not just the vison of outside observers.
Perspectives
This could have been a methodological breakthrough, but as ever, the EC ticks a box and forgets. It certainly does not like to see reality preferring rose-tinted spectacles. Methodologically, the media group did great things and development of approaches continue.
Professor Geoffrey Clive Williams
Universite de Bretagne-Sud
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This page is a summary of: European Identity, May 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP),
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199602308.001.0001.
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