Contesting Europe's Eastern Rim: Cultural Identities in Public Discourse

Linguists, scholars of particular languages, and language specialists in such fields as psychology and anthropology examine issues surrounding the discursive creation of cultural identity in the broad swath between the Baltic and the Balkan peninsulae. They discuss the relationships between insiders and outsiders in the ongoing process of European Union enlargement, the perception of southeast Europe and its various nationalities as good guys and bad guys, and European insidereness and outsiderness in literary representations. Among the topics are the role of metaphor in shaping cultural stereotypes as demonstrated by French public discourse on European Union enlargement, the construction of Serbian and Montenegrin identities through layout and photographs of leading politicians in official newspapers, and Miroslav Krleza's two Europes versus the notion of Europe's edge. Distributed in the US by UTP Distribution. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

"Ljiljana Sari? is Professor of Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian at the University of Oslo. Her publications include Discourses of Intercultural Identity in Britain, Germany and Eastern Europe (co-editor, 2004), and Red-Letter Days and Discursive Identity Construction in Central Europe and the Balkans (co-editor, forthcoming).
Andreas Musolff is Professor of Intercultural Communication Studies at the University of East Anglia. His books include Metaphor, Nation and the Holocaust (2010) and Metaphor and Political Discourse (2004). He has co-edited Metaphor and Discourse (2009) and several volumes comparing British and German political debates about the European Union.
Stefan Manz is Senior Lecturer and Director of German Studies at Aston University. Publications include Discourses of Intercultural Identity in Britain, Germany and Eastern Europe (2004, co-edited) and Migration and Transfer from Germany to Britain, 1660?1914 (2007, co-edited).
Ingrid Hudabiunigg is Professor Emeritus of German as a foreign language and European studies at the Technical University of Chemnitz (Germany). She has published extensively on discursive identity construction."