Title: Retracing the European Map. An Ideological Outline of the Old vs. New Europe Debate
Abstract: The conceptual history of ideology bears testimony to the concept's versatility and instability. Despite ideology's ubiquity due to its dissemination in diverse areas such as politics, sociology, philosophy, literature and economy, it is neither easy to establish nor to adopt a durable and irreversible definition of ideology as a concept.1 Adding to the conceptual difficulties mentioned, the role of language and linguistics is regularly ignored or underestimated in the analysis of ideology. Thus the task to fulfil in what follows is threefold. First, I will outline the difficulties encountered on the conceptual level, not only from a linguist's perspective but also from various theoretical vantage points. Second, I will illustrate the leverage points possible and necessary within a linguistic framework. And third, I will demonstrate, albeit exemplary due to the limited scope of this volume, how a linguistic analysis contributes to the study of ideologies. In doing so, I will retrace the construction of ideologies centring around the recent debate of old vs. new Europe.
Publication Year: 2004
Publication Date: 2004-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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