On the Discursive Deconstruction and Reconstruction of Europe

Sabine Heinemann is full professor of Romance Linguistics at Karl Franzens University, Graz, Austria. Her research interests focus on language change, (historical) dialectology and minority languages (especially Friulian), cognitive semantics and, recently, the language of advertising and political discourse.Uta Helfrich is full professor of Romance Linguistics at Göttingen University, Germany. Her major research interests include language variation and change, the semantics, syntax and pragmatics of discourse in general, and political and media discourse in particular.Judith Visser is full professor of Romance Philology (linguistics, didactics and methodology of language teaching) at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany. Her main research areas are sociolinguistics, folk linguistics, metaphors and political discourse.

• EUROPE under Construction. - Founding Concepts. - The Conceptualisation of EUROPE in the Italian Press since the Early 20th Century. - Notre Europe a besoin d’une refondation. – From Brexit to Frentrance? - Pro-European and Anti-European Attitudes. - The Fairy Tale Mental Model in Speeches by the Austrian FPӦ and the Italian Lega Right-Wing Populist Parties in the European Parliament. - Podemos, VOX and Ciudadanos. – Linguistic Approaches to Discourse. - RENEWAL vs REBUILDING.