Rruga për në Evropë. Konceptualizimi metaforik i procesit të integrimit evropian në diskursin politik Shqipëtar
Abstrakti
Since the demise of communism in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the notion of Europe has assumed a prominent role within political discourses in Albania. The interpretation of this concept has exhib-ited a degree of fluidity, its meaning evolving according to the prevailing context and political cir-cumstances in which it has been invoked. Nevertheless, one consistent thread running through these varied usages is the portrayal of Europe as an inescapable destiny for Albania. During the most recent term of the socialist government led by Prime Minister Edi Rama a notable shift in the discourse con-cerning the European Union has been noticed. The EU is depicted as a fortress, a demanding parental figure, a capricious bride, a dissatisfied professor, and even abstractly alluded to through references to Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot’. This paper’s aim is to delve into the construction of the EU concept within contemporary political discourses in Albania, with a specific focus on Prime Minister Edi Rama. The study draws upon the methodologies and practices of Critical Discourse Analysis and Conceptual Metaphor Theory to explore the dynamics of power relations conveyed through the lin-guistic analysis of selected textual material.
Fjalët kyçe:
critical discourse analysis, conceptual metaphor, political discourse, conceptualization, EUShkarkimet
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Van Dijk, T.A. (2008). Discourse and Power: Contributions to Critical Discourse Studies. Palgrave MacMillan
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Wodak, R. & Meyer, M (2002) Methods of critical discourse analysis, Sage, London
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Brisku, A. (2012). Bittersweet Europe: Albanian and Georgian Discourses on Europe, 1878- 2008, Berghahn, New York, Oxford
Charteris-Black, J. (2011). Politicians and rhetoric: The Persuasive power of metaphor. Palgrave Macmillan.
Charteris-Black, J. (2014) Analysing Political Speeches: Rhetoric, Discourse and Metaphor. Basingstoke & New York: Palgrave-MacMillan.
Chouliaraki, L & Fairclough, N. (1999). Discourse in late modernity: Rethinking Critical Discourse Analysis, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press
Fairclough, N. (1995) Critical Discourse Analysis, Longman, London
Fairclough, Norman (2003). Analysing Discourse: Textual Analysis for Social Research. London: Routledge.
Fairclough, Norman (2014). Language and Power (3rd edition). London: Longman.
Kövecses, Z. (2010). Metaphor: A practical introduction. Oxford University Press.
Lakoff, G. &. Johnson, M. (1980). Metaphors we live by. London: The University of Chicago Press.
Lakoff, G (1996). Moral politics: What conservatives know that Liberals don’t. The University of Chicago Press
Low, C. (1999). Researching and applying metaphor. Cambridge University Press.
Musolff, A. (2004 ). Metaphor and Political Discourse: Analogical reasoning in debates about Europe. Palgrave MacMillan.
Musolff, A. & Zinken, J. (2009). Metaphor and Political Discourse. Palgrave MacMillan
Musolff, A. (2016). Political Metaphor Analysis: Discourses and Scenarios. London: Bloomsbury Academic
Petrovic, T. (2009). A long way home: Representations of the western balkans in politics and media discourse. Peace Institute.
Semino, E. & Culpeper, J. Cognitive stylistics: Language and cognition in text analysis. John Benjamins. 2002
Semino, E. Metaphor in discourse. Cambridge University Press. 2008
Sorlin, S. (2022). The stylistics of ‘you’: second person pronoun and its pragmatic effects. Cambridge University Press
Van Dijk, T.A (1998). Ideology: A multidisciplinary approach. Sage, London
van Dijk, T. A. (2006). Discourse and manipulation. Discourse & Society, 359-383.
Van Dijk, T.A. (2008). Discourse and Power: Contributions to Critical Discourse Studies. Palgrave MacMillan
Wodak, R. & Meyer, M (2002) Methods of critical discourse analysis, Sage, London
Wodak, R. & Chilton, P. (Eds.) (2005). New Agenda in (Critical) Discourse Analysis. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Wodak, R. & Reisigl, M. (Eds.) (2009). The Discursive Construction of National Identity. Edinburgh: EUP.
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