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This book focuses on linguistic practices of identity construction in a popular culture media context, the Eurovision Song Contest. Subscribing to a normativity-based approach to critical discourse analysis, it studies Europeanisation as it surfaces at th

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Language, Normativity and Europeanisation Discursive Evidence from the Eurovision Song Contest Heiko Motschenbacher

Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse

Series Editor Johannes Angermüller University of Warwick Coventry, United Kingdom

Aims of the Series Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse engages in the exchange between discourse theory and analysis while putting emphasis on the intellectual challenges in discourse research. Moving beyond disciplinary divisions in today’s social sciences, the contributions deal with critical issues at the intersections between language and society. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/14534

Heiko Motschenbacher

Language, Normativity and Europeanisation Discursive Evidence from the Eurovision Song Contest

Heiko Motschenbacher Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main Frankfurt, Germany

Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse ISBN 978-1-137-56300-2 ISBN 978-1-137-56301-9 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-56301-9

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Acknowledgements

I would like to thank all those people who have supported me and my work on this project throughout the years. Among the numerous scholars who have provided me with constructive feedback, be it at conferences or in reviews of my work, I would like to highlight Marlis Hellinger, Andreas Krass, William L. Leap, Susanne Mühleisen, Martin Stegu and the members of the Eurovision Research Network (ERN). The English Linguistics Departme