Media Discourse of Commemoration

This book explores how First World War commemoration events are presented, reported and mediated on the websites of mainstream daily newspapers from seven European countries. The book is the result of a research group DIREPA-EUROPE (Discours, représentations, passé de l'Europe), part of Lemel research network characterized by a shared interest in media discourse and online newspapers. It presents a fluid analysis chain on the commemoration discourse generated by the WWI Armistice Centenary in 2018, and will be of interest not only to scholars of discourse and media studies, but also of European history, cultural memory, journalism and conflict studies.

Draws on fields of communication studies, media studies, multimodality, discourse analysis and memory studies Demonstrates how the centenary of the end of WWI may contribute to the present-day construction of European identity Examines newspaper nationalism during political divisions and tensions at the European and international levels

Autorentext

Elisabeth Le is Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta, Canada.

Luciana Radut-Gaghi is Habilitated Associated Professor at the CY Cergy Paris Université, France. She has directed the Lemel (l'Europe dans les médias en ligne) research network since 2014.

Alida Maria Silletti is Associate professor of French Language and Translation in the Department of Political Science at the University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy. Hedwig Wagner holds a professorship in European Media Studies at the Europa-Universitaet Flensburg, Germany and is on the board of the Interdisciplinary Centre for European Studies (ICES).

Inhalt
Chapter1 Centenary of WWI Armistice, Commemoration, and Memory.- Chapter2 Europeanisation: The construction of the European idea within the media discourse of commemoration.- Chapter3 What is the lesson of the First World War?.- Chapter4 Narratives of history and Europe.- Chapter5 World War I in Russian and German media: Shaping the discourse of memory.- Chapter6 Social representations of the war as a historical event.- Chapter7 Looking for a collective memory inscribed in the illustrations of French and Italian newspapers.- Chapter8 WWI Commemoration, Brexit, and Europe.- Chapter9 Roundtable. A multifaceted WWI centenary and an evasive Europe.