Towards a Language of 'Europe
History, Rhetoric, Community
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3970241 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul V Stock (0000-0002-1807-3895, London School of Economics and Political Science), Paul Stock (0000-0003-1777-9463, London School of Economics and Political Science, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 647-666 |
| Publication date | 2017-08-18 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The European Legacy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1084-8770 • E-ISSN: 1470-1316 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10848770.2017.1326672 |
| OpenAlex | W2572959667 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 51 |
From Herder to Benedict Anderson, language and nation have been at the centre of ideas about (imagined) community. This hypothesis, however, poses a problem for analysing ideas about Europe. How can we understand “Europe” as a concept or form of identity when language and nationality are considered the foundation of imagined communities and loyalties? This article addresses this difficulty. It uses J. G. A. Pocock’s definition of “sub-languages” to suggest that one can investigate the rhetorical strategies, images and vocabularies with which texts articulate ideas about Europe. These sub-languages evoke imagined communities, most obviously when texts name and identify particular groups of people as “Europeans.” But by using images and rhetorics about Europe, these texts also appeal to a readership that comprehends—even if it does not fully accept—certain assumptions about the continent. In this way, texts evoke an imagined community of readers who purportedly share a similar way of understanding Europe, or who can perhaps be persuaded to think about it in similar terms. These processes are historically particular, and so the article concludes with concrete examples. It focuses on how early-nineteenth-century philhellenes evoked a European imagined community to solicit support for the Greek Revolution (1821–32)
Aesthetics · Appeal · Art · Audience measurement · Immigration · Linguistics · Nationality · Political science · Rhetoric · Rhetorical question · Sociology · Classical Studies and Philology · History · History, Culture, and Diplomacy · Law · Philosophy
Language, society, and identity
Europe
Sentiment and sociability
The Social history of language
Reception theory
The Shelley-Byron Circle and the Idea of Europe
The Literary Channel
Rethinking linguistic relativity
An Historical Outline of the Greek Revolution
Languages and Communities in Early Modern Europe
Irony's Edge
Course in General Linguistics
The Implied Reader
The Oxford Handbook of the Eighteenth-Century Novel
Is There a Text in This Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities
Nationalism and national development.
Herder's Social and Political Thought
Narrative of a Second Visit to Greece
Europe as an Idea and an Identity
Rereading the English Common Reader
The real-and-imagined spaces of philhellenic travel
How to write a history of Europe
Metaphor in Political Discourse
The Eve of the Greek Revival
Did Europe exist before 1700
Deconstructing Europe
Language, Society and Identity
Language, Self, and Society
Toward an Aesthetic of Reception
Politics, language, and time
The Sovereign Map
Narrative, Irony, and Faith in Gibbon's Decline and Fall
Imagined communities
Reading
Rousseau à l'anglais
Europe
The Construction of Nationhood
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |