Discourse and Transformation in Central and Eastern Europe

1. Introduction: Discourses of Social and Political Transformation in the ‘New Europe’
Michał Krzyżanowski, Aleksandra Galasińska

2. Theorising and Analysing Social Change in Central and Eastern Europe: The Contribution of Critical Discourse Analysis
Michał Krzyżanowski, Ruth Wodak

Part I. Transformation(s) of the Public Sphere (I) — Discourses of Media and Public Policy

3. Reflecting Social Heteroglossia and Accommodating Diverse Audiences — a Challenge to the Media
Brigitta Busch

4. Contesting Social Space through Language Education Debates in Latvia’s Media Landscape
Gabrielle Hogan-Brun

5. The (Re)construction of Refugees in Slovenian Media
Igor Ž. Žagar

Part II. Transformation(s) of the Public Sphere (II) — Discourses of Politics, Institutions and Economy

6. On the ‘Europeanisation’ of Identity Constructions in Polish Political Discourse after 1989
Michał Krzyżanowski

7. Governing Abandoned Children: The Discursive Construction of Space in the Case of ‘Babybox’
Igor Nosál

8. Critical Juncture: Church Slavonic and the Discourse of Cultural Preservation in Post-Soviet Russia
Brian P. Bennett

9. Narrating Transition in East German Company Histories
Helen Kelly-Holmes

Part III. Transformation(s) of the Semi-public/Semi-private and Private Spheres — Discourse and the Experience of Transformation

10. ‘Mea Culpa’: The Social Production of Public Disclosure and Reconciliation with the Past
Cristian Tileagǎ

11. Small Stories Fight Back: Narratives of Polish Economic Migration on an Internet Forum
Aleksandra Galasińska

12. Narratives of Disenfranchised Self in the Polish Post-Communist Reality
Dariusz Galasiński

Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, European Politics, Applied Linguistics, European Literature, Linguistics, general, Sociolinguistics, Social Sciences, general