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Establishing the EU: The representation of Europe in the press in 1993 and 2005

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posted on 2023-06-09, 02:21 authored by Charlotte TaylorCharlotte Taylor, Anna Marchi
This paper investigates how the European Union was represented in three British newspapers over two different time periods: 1993 and 2005. The Treaty on European Union, which led to the creation of the European Union, was signed in 1992 and entered into force in 1993. The Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe was signed in 2004, and like the Maastricht Treaty was subject to ratification. However, unlike the Maastricht Treaty, it was rejected in referendums in France and the Netherlands in 2005 and therefore was not implemented. These two events were chosen for their importance in the history of the European Union and because they allow for a diachronic comparison of the construal of Europe in the British press. Two sub-corpora were used in the study, the first, SiBol_93, contains approximately 92 million tokens from three broadsheet British newspapers collected in 1993 and the second, SiBol_05, contains approximately 150 million tokens collected from the same sources in 2005. Each of these corpora covers the year after the signing of the treaties and therefore the period in which the ratification was discussed. The corpora were investigated using Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies (CADS) which involves a shunting between quantitative and qualitative analytical approaches and starting points (see, for example, Partington 2004, forthcoming; Baker 2006). Our findings show that while there is no simplistic positive to negative reversal of evaluation, there is certainly a marked decrease in the newsworthiness of Europe and the European Union, and the problem the European Union faces is primarily one of visibility.

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Publication status

  • Published

Publisher

Rodopi

Issue

68

Page range

201-224

Pages

516.0

Book title

Corpora: pragmatics and discourse

Place of publication

Amsterdam

ISBN

9789042025929

Series

Language and computers

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  • English Publications

Notes

Papers from the International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora (ICAME 29). Ascona, Switzerland, 14-18 May 2008.

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  • Yes

Editors

Daniel Schreier, Marianne Hundt, Andreas H Jucker

Legacy Posted Date

2016-08-02

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