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NATIONAL IDENTITY AND EUROPE IN TIMES OF CRISIS

Doing and Undoing Europe

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NATIONAL IDENTITY AND EUROPE IN TIMES OF CRISIS

Doing and Undoing Europe

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CHRISTIAN KARNER

University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

MONIKA KOPYTOWSKA

University of Łódź, Łódź, Poland

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About the Authors

Fabienne Baider received her PhD at the University of Toronto and is Associate Professor in Linguistics at the University of Cyprus, Cyprus. She works on contrastive linguistics, semantics and discourse from a socio-cognitivist perspective on English, French and Greek. She is particularly interested in issues related to conceptual metaphors, emotions, extremist and violent discourse, language and identity construction. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as the International Journal of Lexicography and Modern and Contemporary France. She has co-edited several special issues and volumes, both in language and gender (Intersexion, 2012; John Benjamins, 2016) and in linguistic approaches to emotions (Langage et l’homme, 2015, John Benjamins, 2014; Presses de la Sorbonne, 2013). She is the author of a volume on semantics, gender and the French languages (Hommes galants, 2004). Her recent research focuses on journalistic and political discourse and CMC (forums, blogs) and she coordinated a two-year EU programme dedicated to hate speech in the European space (2015–2017, CONTACT).

Maria Constantinou received her PhD in Language Sciences from the University of Franche-Comté in 2006, France. She has been teaching foreign languages and communication-related courses in private academic institutions of Cyprus (since 2007) and linguistics (since January 2012) at the University of Cyprus. Her research interests include critical discourse analysis, contrastive linguistics and translation studies. She is particularly interested in issues related to conceptual metaphors, emotions, extremist and violent discourse, irony and identity construction through discourse and symbolism. Her recent research focuses on journalistic and political discourse, computer-mediated communication (CMC) (forums, blogs) and translation mainly from the viewpoint of narrative theory and Critical Discourse Analysis. She has participated in various conferences and published articles and chapters in and on English, French and Greek mainly from a contrastive and translational perspective in refereed and peer-reviewed journals and volumes.

Łukasz Grabowski is Associate Professor at the Institute of English, University of Opole, Poland. His research interests include corpus linguistics, phraseology, formulaic language, translation studies and lexicography. He is also interested in computer-assisted methods of text analysis. He has published internationally in International Journal of Corpus Linguistics and English for Specific Purposes, among other journals. He is also Managing Editor of the journal Explorations: A Journal of Language and Literature.

Christian Karner is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Nottingham, UK. He has previously worked as a Leverhulme Special Research Fellow and as a Research Associate in the Center for Austrian Studies at the University of Minnesota. Christian’s research focuses on memory studies, the politics of national identity in Austria and on urban sociology. His books include Ethnicity and Everyday Life (2007), Negotiating National Identities (2011), The Use and Abuse of Memory: Interpreting World War II in Contemporary European Politics (co-edited with Bram Mertens, 2013) and The Commonalities of Global Crises (co-edited with Bernhard Weicht, 2016).

Monika Kopytowska received her PhD from the University of Łódź Poland, where she is currently affiliated with the Department of Pragmatics. Her research interests revolve around identity, media discourse and the pragma-rhetorical aspects of the mass-mediated representation of conflict/terrorism, ethnicity and religion. She has published internationally in linguistic journals and volumes (e.g. with Yusuf Kalyango (eds.), Why Discourse Matters, Peter Lang Publishers, 2014) and is now working on the dynamics of proximization in news discourse (Creating Context, Shaping Cognition: Africa, Conflict and the Media, Amsterdam: Benjamins, forthcoming) and the mediatization of religion (with Paul Chilton (eds.), Religion, Language and Human Mind, New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming). She is the co-editor of Łódź Papers in Pragmatics (de Gruyter), the associate editor of Moral Cognition & Communication (Benjamins), the assistant editor of CADAAD Journal and editorial board member of The University of Nairobi Journal of Language and Linguistics. She is the board member of the European Network for Intercultural Education Activities.

Zinovia Lialiouti is Researcher at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens, Greece, and Research Fellow at the National Research Foundation. Her current research projects involve American cultural diplomacy in post-war Greece and ideological trends in Greek society in the crisis context. She has conducted three-year post-doctoral research on the ideology of Americanism and the image of Greece during the period 1947–1967. She holds a PhD from the Department of Politics and History, Panteion University, Athens. The title of her thesis is Greek anti-Americanism, 1947–1989. She has published papers on the phenomenon of anti-Americanism, American studies, cold war culture, as well as the study of political discourse and Greek political culture.

James Moir is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the Abertay University, Dundee, Scotland, UK. He has a research interest in the application of discourse analysis across a wide range of topics including discourses of occupational identities, health-related discourse, the discursive construction of nationalism and identity, education policy and citizenship discourse, political discourse in the media and in this volume pro- and anti-immigration discourse in the European context.

Maja Muhic is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies, Multiculturalism, Post-Colonial Theory and Culture of the English-speaking countries at the South East European University in Tetovo, Macedonia. She holds a PhD in Philosophy from Ss Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, and an MPhil in Cultural Anthropology from Cambridge University, UK. During 2007–2008, Muhic spent a semester at the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. In the previous years, she has also visited and did research at other renowned universities, such as The University of Santa Barbara, California, where she earned a fellowship to study religious pluralism and diversity in the USA. As a result of her stay there and her cooperation with the Department of Religious Studies, Muhic has shown up as the co-author of the Encyclopedia of Global Religion (2011) edited by Mark Juergensmeyer and Wade Clark Roof. She has also published her work in After Yugoslavia: Identities and Politics within the Successor States (2011) edited by Robert Hudson and Glenn Bowman and published by Palgrave Macmillan. In addition to this, Muhic has published a number of articles in philosophical and anthropological journals focusing primarily on issues of diversity, ethnicity and identity formation. She participated as a guest speaker in a number of conferences throughout Europe, Japan and USA.

Chiara Nasti is currently temporary Lecturer in the Department of Languages, Literature and Comparative Studies at the University of Naples L’Orientale, Italy. She is also working as temporary Lecturer at the University of Naples Federico II for the Department of Statistical Science and Economics. She has been a Postdoctoral Research Fellow working on Uniweb and English as Lingua Franca within the project FORGIARE funded by the University of Naples Federico II. In 2011 she completed her PhD in Lingua Inglese per Scopi Speciali (English for Special Purposes), for which she was awarded a three-year studentship. From 2011 to 2013 she worked as temporary Lecturer in the Department of Architecture at the University of Naples Federico II. She is a member of the RaAM (Researching and Applying Metaphor association) and she also has participated in international conferences and symposiums. Her research interests are English as Lingua Franca in the institutional academic domain, corpus linguistics, metaphor analysis, news discourse and evaluation.

Christian Nestler, MA, is Research Assistant at the University of Rostock, Germany, Department of Comparative Politics at the Institute for Political Science. His research focuses among other topics on the history of science and system change in 20^th-century Germany.

Magdalena Nowicka-Franczak is Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Department of Research on Social Communication at the Institute of Sociology, University of Łódź, Poland. In 2014–2015, she was Junior Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. Her academic interests focus on the current public debate in Central and Eastern Europe, collective memory of Shoah and World War II, post-Foucauldian discourse analysis and post-colonial studies. A book based on her dissertation ‘Niechciana debata. Spór o książki Jana Tomasza Grossa’ was published in December 2016 (in Polish).

Alexandra Pinto is Assistant Professor in the Arts Faculty of University of Porto, Portugal and PhD in Linguistics, with a thesis about aspects of the advertising textualization. She is responsible for the teaching of several chairs in Linguistics in graduation and post-graduation and specialized in discourse analysis, pragmatics and sociolinguistics. She is a member of the Scientific Committee of CLUP – Linguistics Centre of University of Porto, where she participates in several international investigation projects and networks, such as Es.Por.Atenuación – Atenuación en el español y el portugués; MEMITA – Memory, identity, integration to identify analysis models in media communication; International Cooperation Agreement I&D USP/U.Porto, on the Discourse of Science. She is the main organizer, since 2011, of JADIS – Annual International Conferences on Discourse Analysis and editor in chief of REDIS – Discourse Studies Review, an online publication by the Arts Faculty of University of Porto. She is also author of several works in national and international publications in the area of Discourse Studies, having focused on aspects of the discursive functioning of advertising discourse, of media opinion discourse, of political discourse and also of scientific discourse.

Jan Rohgalf is Research Assistant at the University of Rostock, Germany, Department Political Theory and History of Ideas at the Institute for Political Science. His research focuses on the political imaginary, the theory of late modern societies and protest movements.

Franco Zappettini (PhD, Applied Linguistics University of London) is Adjunct Professor of English in the Department of Education, University of Genoa, Italy. He is also a Honorary Research Associate in the School of Management, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. His research interests focus on the application of critical linguistic approaches to political and organisational discourses.