Europe — Discourse — Politics — Media — History: Constructing ‘Crises’?

Stråth, Bo; Wodak, Ruth

doi:10.1057/9780230271722_2

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“…Associated with the ‘state of exception’ narrative is the strategy of constructing a public narrative about the crisis as a turning point in the country’s history (see Angouri and Wodak, 2014: 544; Strath and Wodak, 2009: 16). Coelho states that Portugal faces a ‘clarifying moment’ (Coelho, 2012b: 2) and a ‘defining moment’ (Coelho, 2011b: 10) in its history, which demonstrates the ‘exhaustion of the old ways’ (Coelho, 2011c: 1) and represents a ‘great turning point’ for change (Coelho, 2011a: 13).…”

Section: The Portuguese Government and Its Discursive Strategies Of Lmentioning

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Through ‘seas never before sailed’: Portuguese government discursive legitimation strategies in a context of financial crisis

Fonseca

Ferreira

2015

Discourse & Society

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This article aims to discuss the discursive legitimation strategies used by the Portuguese government to legitimate its political action between 2011 and 2014 in the context of the financial, economic and social crisis and the implementation of a three-year bailout programme and consequent austerity policies. Drawing from Critical Discourse Analysis for discussing discursive legitimation strategies, we selected eight political discourses delivered by the Portuguese Prime Minister and organised his discursive legitimation strategies into four main categories: (1)‘state of exception’, (2) blame allocation, (3) no alternative options and the appeal to emotions and (4) effectiveness. We conclude that, between 2011 and 2014, the Portuguese Prime Minister, through the ‘state of exception’ narrative and blame allocation strategies, sought to impose and legitimate governmental political action as the only viable option to overcome the crisis, as well as to reify the idea that austerity policies were the correct path to ensure a sustainable growth and to build a dynamic, prosperous and fair country.

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Section: The Portuguese Government and Its Discursive Strategies Of Lmentioning

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Through ‘seas never before sailed’: Portuguese government discursive legitimation strategies in a context of financial crisis

Fonseca

Ferreira

2015

Discourse & Society

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“…Especially during periods of crisis, the values of a community pass through a process of discussion, revision and potential transformation. In this sense, different understandings and meanings of Europe are proposed, and thus ‘various contentious and overlapping discourses on Europe create (mis)understandings of Europe or parallel and conflicting understandings’ (Stråth and Wodak, 2009: 17).…”

Section: Towards a Synergy Between Textual And Contextual Analysis Ofmentioning

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Understanding political discourses about Europe: A multilevel contextual approach to discourse

Trimithiotis

2017

Discourse & Society

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This article contributes to the theoretical and methodological discussion on textual-contextual analysis in political communication and media research. It argues that taking into consideration both text and context throughout an analysis of the process of production enables the observation of the relation between the social and the linguistic. It opens up a non-deterministic perspective for the analysis of the above relation. The article rests upon an empirical study on the production of discourses for the campaign of European Parliament elections. The use of such a multilevel approach adds important elements to the research findings, particularly in terms of showing on the one hand how power relations within 'Europarties' results in the construction of common European identities in different European Union (EU) states, and on the other hand how professionalization of political communication reinforces discursive dissimilarities between parties of the same ideological family in different EU states.

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“…At the same time, however, it corroborates an understanding of the crisis as a narrative construction, able to diagnose a situation and, as such, to define analogous responses (Hay, 1996: 254–255). As a result, a growing scholarly interest has registered some of the ways that the crisis mobilized meaning-making mechanisms in the news media (Mylonas, 2012, 2014; Stråth and Wodak, 2009; Wodak and Angouri, 2014). The investigation of international media coverage highlights the ways in which questions of crisis definition, causality, culpability, and impact are treated, and indicates certain interpretations which have emerged as common sense and/or dominant – such as the cultural interpretation which sees the crisis as the result of the mentality of southern Europeans (Antoniades, 2013: 22), informing processes of legitimation of specific top-down policies for dealing with the crisis, the so-called ‘austerity measures’ (Pleios, 2013: 19–20).…”

Section: The Culturalization Of the Eurozone Crisis And Its Symptomsmentioning

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Domesticating pathogenies, evaluating change: the Eurozone crisis as a ‘hot moment’ in Greek television fiction

Aitaki

2017

Media, Culture & Society

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This article investigates how the Eurozone crisis is thematically negotiated in a popular Greek television comedy. Inspired by the increasing interest in the ideological role of news media during the Eurozone crisis of the late 2000s, it turns the spotlight on the sphere of entertainment in an attempt to address the importance of fictional mediations and meaning-making processes. To that end, it proposes an understanding of television fiction as an accommodator and shaper of ‘hot moments’, instigating processes of self-assessment and evaluation of change. More specifically, the study examines the ways in which the family comedy Piso sto Spiti (MEGA Channel, 2011–2013) provides culturally based understandings of the Eurozone crisis by depicting it as associated with inherent flaws of the modern Greek and by assessing the possibility of change through a juxtaposition with national ‘others’. At the same time, it identifies ways that ideology leaks from television fiction in its interaction with other media discourses simultaneously circulating within a society.

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Europe — Discourse — Politics — Media — History: Constructing ‘Crises’?

Cited by 42 publications

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Through ‘seas never before sailed’: Portuguese government discursive legitimation strategies in a context of financial crisis

Through ‘seas never before sailed’: Portuguese government discursive legitimation strategies in a context of financial crisis

Understanding political discourses about Europe: A multilevel contextual approach to discourse

Domesticating pathogenies, evaluating change: the Eurozone crisis as a ‘hot moment’ in Greek television fiction

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