Language, Normativity and Europeanisation
Discursive Evidence from the Eurovision Song Contest
1st Edition
Published on 23. December 2016
XVII, 384 pages
978-1-137-56301-9 (ISBN)
Description
This book focuses on linguistic practices of identity construction in a popular culture media context, the Eurovision Song Contest. Subscribing to a normativity-based approach to critical discourse analysis, it studies Europeanisation as it surfaces at the discursive interface of European, national and sexual identities in Eurovision lyrics and performances. Research in critical discourse analysis that deals with Europeanisation, or the discursive work involved in European identity formation, has so far mainly studied data from EU political contexts that illustrate a top-down approach to what Europeanness means. The present book complements this earlier research in several ways, focusing on the linguistic construction of identities, and its interrelation with non-linguistic modes of signification in the Eurovision Song Contest. Discursive mechanisms that prove to be central for the normative shifts of Europeanisation in the given context are de-essentialisation, inclusion, camp, crossing and languaging.
Reviews / Votes
"This book is a notable addition to the field of sociolinguistics and critical discourse studies, one that I would recommend to anyone invested in gender or European scholarship." (Vincent Pak, Language in Society, Vol. 49 (1), 2020)
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
XVII, 384 p. 6 illus. in color.
File size
6,36 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-137-56301-9 (9781137563019)
DOI
10.1057/978-1-137-56301-9
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Heiko Motschenbacher
Language, Normativity and Europeanisation
Discursive Evidence from the Eurovision Song Contest
Book
01/2017
Palgrave Macmillan
€96.29
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Person
Heiko Motschenbacher is a lecturer at Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, where he completed his PhD and post-doc research. He has held temporary professorships of English Linguistics at universities in Bayreuth, Siegen, Braunschweig and Mainz. He is founder and co-editor of the
Journal of Language and Sexuality
(with William L. Leap). Among his recent publications are the monographs Language,
Gender and Sexual Identity: Poststructuralist Perspectives
(2010),
An Interdisciplinary Bibliography on Language, Gender and Sexuality
(2000-2011) (2012), and
New Perspectives on English as a European Lingua Franca
(2013). He has co-edited a special issue of the journal
Discourse & Society on Queer Linguistic Approaches to Discourse
(2013, with Martin Stegu) and the fourth volume of
Gender Across Languages: The Linguistic Representation of Women and Men
(2015, with Marlis Hellinger).
Content
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The Communicative Setting of the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC).- Chapter 3: The Language-Identity-Normativity Interface and Critical Discourse Studies.- Chapter 4: Language Choice Practices in the ESC.- Chapter 5: Code-Switching Practices in ESC Performances.- Chapter 6: The Linguistic Construction of Europeanness, Nationalism and Sexuality in ESC Performances.- Chapter 7: Multimodal Identity Construction in ESC Performances.- Chapter 8: Prevalent Discourses in ESC Lyrics.- Chapter 9: Overview.
