Conceiving of Europe

Diversity and unity in European debates, Christina Schaffner, Andreas Musolff and Michael Townson; false friends borrowing the right words? Common terms and metaphors in European communication, Andreas Musolff; building a European house? Or at two speeds into a dead end? Metaphors in the debate on the united Europe, Christina Schaffner; the enlargement negotiations in the West-European press - a study of information flow in the EU, Lieve van de Walle; team Europe? Stereotypes of national character in European sports reporting, Hugh O'Donnell; cultural convergence and national stereotyping - the future of advertising in the united Europe, Helen Kelly-Holmes; political communication and political culture in Germany and Great Britain - some differences and similarities, Colin Good; indirect speech and conversational implicatures - the case for contrastive pragmatics, Frank Liedtke; the concept of work in Europe, Wolfgang Teubert; the "other" Europe on the threshold of the 21st century - the political and cultural consideration of the Baltic States' new sovereignty?, Francis Knowles; "den festen Kern festigen" - towards a functional taxonomy of transnational political discourse, Nigel Reeves.