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The "Heart" of the European "Body Politic". British and German Perspectives on Europe's Central "Organ"
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Musolff, Andreas – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2004
On the basis of a corpus of British and German press coverage of European Union (EU) politics over the 1990s, the paper analyses uses of the geopolitical HEART metaphor. Over the course of the 1990s, successive British governments promised to work "at" the "heart of Europe". However, no one ever claimed that Britain was…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Foreign Countries, German, Newspapers
The Evolution of Multiculturalism in Britain and Germany: An Historical Survey
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Panayi, Panikos – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2004
This paper is an introductory survey of the evolution of multiculturalism in Britain and Germany over the past two centuries. The historical approach argues that the main determinants of difference between these nation states lie in their long-term traditional attitudes towards immigrants and ethnic minorities. It focuses upon the patterns of…
Descriptors: Popular Culture, Cultural Pluralism, Foreign Countries, Minority Groups
The Otherness of Eastern Europe
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Hudabiunigg, Ingrid – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2004
This paper analyses an extensive corpus of texts from the German media and existing studies of German perspectives on Poland, Russia, the Czech Republic and Slovenia in order to demonstrate that there are two idealised culture cognitive models (ICCMs) that function as overarching categories for Europe: the ICCM west (the members of the European…
Descriptors: Nouns, Foreign Countries, German, Schemata (Cognition)