No place like home

The role of the media in the framing of EUrope

Bibliographic Data

ID6084276
AuthorsSine Nørholm Just (0000-0002-4179-2708)
Year2009
Volume8
Issue2
Pages244-268
Publication date2009-09-09
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Language and Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1569-2159 • E-ISSN: 1569-9862
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/jlp.8.2.04jus
OpenAlexW2039669949
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited20

Media representations of the EU provide significant clues as to how citizens make sense of the EU/Europe, wherefore analyses of such representations are central to European studies as such. This paper aims to explain how the media represented the EU at the onset of the European constitutional process. To that end the paper employs a modified version of frame analysis which includes a corpus linguistic identification of dominant topical frames and a close discursive-rhetorical reading of the formal framing of the topics. The analysis shows that the news coverage offers the readers no sense of belonging to the EU. On the one hand, citizens are represented as being disengaged from the European integration process. On the other hand, the EU is not represented as a stable entity. Instead, the EU is defined as the very process which citizens are said to shun

Content analysis · Frame (networking · Frame analysis · Framing (construction · Linguistics · Media studies · Political science · Process (computing · Reading (process · Rhetorical question · Social science · Sociology · Telecommunications · Computer Science · European Union Policy and Governance · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies · History · Law · Philosophy

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