Transnationalism as an Index to Construct European Identities: an Analysis of ‘Transeuropean’ Discourses
Transnationalism is a multifaceted phenomenon which has impacted on society and challenged, inter alia, the paradigm of national affiliations. The trasnationalisation of the EU-ropean field has arguably contributed to a political arena where embryonic post-national identities and new forms of belong...
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Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)
2017-12-01
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| author | Franco Zappettini |
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| description | Transnationalism is a multifaceted phenomenon which has impacted on society and challenged, inter alia, the paradigm of national affiliations. The trasnationalisation of the EU-ropean field has arguably contributed to a political arena where embryonic post-national identities and new forms of belonging are being negotiated, challenged and legitimized. By investigating the discourses of members of a transnational NGO of ‘active’ citizens, this paper seeks to understand how current European identities are discursively constructed from bottom up in the public sphere. Appropriating CDA this paper offers insights into how discursive strategies and linguistic devices used by the speakers, and predicated on the indexicality of transnational frames, construct Europe and patterns of belonging to it. This paper suggests different conceptual dimensions of transnationalism enacted by members in discourse which are conveniently summarised as: nation-centric, Euro-centric, and cosmopolitan. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b599bb9512154a86bd0da16d6e38a6742022-12-22T01:32:00ZengPeoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)Russian journal of linguistics: Vestnik RUDN2312-91822312-92122017-12-0121226028110.22363/2312-9182-2017-21-2-260-28115046Transnationalism as an Index to Construct European Identities: an Analysis of ‘Transeuropean’ DiscoursesFranco Zappettini0<p>Университет Генуи</p>Transnationalism is a multifaceted phenomenon which has impacted on society and challenged, inter alia, the paradigm of national affiliations. The trasnationalisation of the EU-ropean field has arguably contributed to a political arena where embryonic post-national identities and new forms of belonging are being negotiated, challenged and legitimized. By investigating the discourses of members of a transnational NGO of ‘active’ citizens, this paper seeks to understand how current European identities are discursively constructed from bottom up in the public sphere. Appropriating CDA this paper offers insights into how discursive strategies and linguistic devices used by the speakers, and predicated on the indexicality of transnational frames, construct Europe and patterns of belonging to it. This paper suggests different conceptual dimensions of transnationalism enacted by members in discourse which are conveniently summarised as: nation-centric, Euro-centric, and cosmopolitan.http://journals.rudn.ru/linguistics/article/view/15897транснационализациядискурсивные стратегиипост-национальные идентичностиязыковые приемыпублична сфера |
| spellingShingle | Franco Zappettini Transnationalism as an Index to Construct European Identities: an Analysis of ‘Transeuropean’ Discourses Russian journal of linguistics: Vestnik RUDN транснационализация дискурсивные стратегии пост-национальные идентичности языковые приемы публична сфера |
| title | Transnationalism as an Index to Construct European Identities: an Analysis of ‘Transeuropean’ Discourses |
| title_full | Transnationalism as an Index to Construct European Identities: an Analysis of ‘Transeuropean’ Discourses |
| title_fullStr | Transnationalism as an Index to Construct European Identities: an Analysis of ‘Transeuropean’ Discourses |
| title_full_unstemmed | Transnationalism as an Index to Construct European Identities: an Analysis of ‘Transeuropean’ Discourses |
| title_short | Transnationalism as an Index to Construct European Identities: an Analysis of ‘Transeuropean’ Discourses |
| title_sort | transnationalism as an index to construct european identities an analysis of transeuropean discourses |
| topic | транснационализация дискурсивные стратегии пост-национальные идентичности языковые приемы публична сфера |
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