Overview
- Delineates meaningful and rigorous definitions of the concepts ‘Eastern Europe’ and ‘Central Europe’
- Analyses the term ‘Eastern Europe’ as a Western invention
- Goes beyond linguistics to discuss the political, historical, economic and cultural concepts that lie behind ‘Eastern Europe’
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This book offers a linguistic-semantic analysis of the expression ‘Eastern Europe’ in international English-language media discourse and academic discourse. Interdisciplinary in nature, it provides insights beyond semantics and lexicology, commenting on the politics, history, economy and culture of the region. Its thorough analysis of ‘Eastern Europe’ as a linguistic entity, surrounded and affected by other linguistic entities, allows for a systematic description of the term’s linguistic ‘behaviour’ in specialist written discourse. The author measures the ‘quantity’ and ‘quality’ of ‘Eastern Europe’ in specialist discourse, painting a holistic picture of how it appears in English-language quality texts published in the last twenty-five years. This book will appeal to students and scholars of cognitive linguistics, semantics, lexicology and lexicography, and to specialists working on history, political theory and international relations as they relate to Eastern Europe.
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“The topic is important and interesting, the amount of the author’s work on Eastern and Central Europe is remarkable. Also, the intention to contribute to an understanding of political terminology by providing insights from linguistic semantics is commendable.” (Adam Głaz, Journal of Language and Politics, Vol. 19 (5), 2020)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Piotr Twardzisz is Associate Professor in the Institute of Applied Linguistics at the University of Warsaw, Poland. His research interests focus on specialist languages, figurative language, word-formation, lexicology and terminology, as well as international affairs. Piotr is author of Zero Derivation in English: A Cognitive Grammar Approach (1997), Patterns of English Word-Formation (2010), The Language of Interstate Relations: In Search of Personification (2013) and numerous articles.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Defining ‘Eastern Europe’
Book Subtitle: A Semantic Inquiry into Political Terminology
Authors: Piotr Twardzisz
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77374-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-77373-5Published: 07 May 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08442-4Published: 10 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-77374-2Published: 25 April 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 259
Topics: Semantics, Lexicology/Vocabulary, Cognitive Linguistics, Russian, Soviet, and East European History, Corpus Linguistics, Pragmatics