This book offers a comparative study of the political debate on the Euro crisis in the press. In the tradition of Critical Discourse Analysis, it investigates the ways in which discourse produces and reproduces social domination, and demystifies the hegemony of specific discourses. Using a combination of quantitative content-based and qualitative text-based analyses, the book investigates the discursive constructions of the crisis in a selection of broadsheet newspapers in Germany, Poland, and the UK. Through a deconstruction of hegemonic opinions, values and beliefs underlining the various claims present in the press reports, it discloses their ideological foundations. By analysing the roots, solutions, and consequences of the crisis, spatial and temporal representations, the representations of social actors and their agency, and legitimating strategies, including the use of metaphors, the book demonstrates how neoliberalism determined the hegemonic discourse on the Euro crisis, resulting in ideologically biased discursive constructions that created and legitimised an image of non-agentic social change.

Book Information
ISBN 9783031138805
Author Katarzyna Sobieraj
Format Hardback
Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
Publisher Springer International Publishing AG
Weight(grams) 155g