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Publication details [#56509]

Forchtner, Bernhard and Christoffer Kølvraa. 2012. Narrating a ‘new Europe’: From ‘bitter past’ to self-righteousness? Discourse & Society 23 (4) : 377–400.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

critical discourse analysis | immigrant | narration | paradox1 | political speech

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper discusses how in a corpus of so-called ‘speculative speeches’ by leading European Union politicians' self-critical narrations of a ‘bitter past’ get paradoxically remodelled into a hard-mouthed attitude towards Europe’s ‘others’.