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Musolff, Andreas
Mirror Images of Europe. Metaphors in the public debate about
Europe in Britain and Germany
Munich: iudicium. 2000, ISBN: 3 89129 634 7
If we go by the imagery used in the public debate, the European
Union is a rather protean entity. Sometimes it is a train that must
not be missed; on other occasions it is depicted as a house
without exit doors, as a family, a marriage or a ménage à trois, or
again as a war zone where battles are fought over beef and a
common currency. But despite their apparent inconsistency, the
metaphors used to interpret modern Europe fall into patterns that
are indicative of specific public attitudes and arguments in the
different nations. Using a corpus of British and German media texts
from the period 1989-2000, this book provides a contrastive
overview over the main metaphor fields of Euro-debates in the
United Kingdom and the Federal Republic. It highlights the
characteristic differences of the EU's 'image' in both countries as
well as the changes it has undergone since the Maastricht and
Amsterdam Treaties. This publication is an outcome as part of the
research project on the "Attitudes towards Europe" at the
University of Durham (cf. web-site:
http://www.dur.ac.uk/SMEL/depts/german/Arcindex.htm).
Chapter I: The path is the goal or: the metaphorisation of European
politics
Chapter II: Vehicles of Europe's political journey in the 1990s
Chapter III: Constructing the Union
Chapter IV: Metaphors of group membership and group control
Chapter V: The physiology of the EU and of its child, the euro
Chapter VI: War games for the EU: metaphors of competition and
confrontation
Chapter VII: The drama of EU politics: comedy or tragedy?
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Andreas Musolff, Colin Good, Petra Points and Ruth Wittlinger
(eds.)
Attitudes towards Europe. Language in the unification process
Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2001; ISBN: 0 7546 1431 X
An innovative collaborative research project conducted jointly at
Durham University and the Institut fuer Deutsche Sprache in
Mannheim, Germany. It focuses on the study of public debates on
economic and political integration of Europe, both in Britain and
Germany, and on how these debates have developed in the post
W.W.II period up to the 1990s. The following topics are
investigated: Euro-discourse and the new media, national identities
in the European context, representations of Germany in political
autobiography, European debates Germany 1945-1955, the
European debate between Germany and Great Britain, neologisms
and metaphors in the public discourse on EU politics. The study
links to Internet applications, providing the basis for further
contrastive research on public discourse in the field of European
politics. (cf. web-site:
http://www.dur.ac.uk/SMEL/depts/german/euro-arc.htm)
Contents: Preface by the current German Ambassador to Britain,
Hans Friedrich von Ploetz; British Discourse on Europe: British
National Identity in the European Context, Gerlinde Mautner;
Representation of Germany in the context of European integration
in Margaret Thatcher’s autobiographies, Ruth Wittlinger; A Province
of a Federal Superstate, Ruled by an Unelected Bureaucracy —
Keywords of the Euro-sceptic Discourse in Britain, Wolfgang
Teubert; German Discourse on Europe: Words, Phrases and
Argumentational Structures in the German Debate on Europe in the
Early Post-War Period, Heidrun Kaemper; Euro: the Career of a
European Neologism in German Press Texts (1995-1999), Dieter
Herberg; Comparative Studies: The European Debate in and
between Germany and Great Britain, Colin Good; The
Metaphorisation of European Politics: Movement on the Road to
Europe, Andreas Musolff; Attitudes to Europe — Mediated by
Translation, Christina Schaeffner; 'Der Ton wird schaerfer.'
Stereotypes in Media Translation, Arachne van der Eijk-Spaan.
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