A. Galasinska & M. Krzyzanowski 
Discourse and Transformation in Central and Eastern Europe [PDF ebook] 

Tables and Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction: Discourses of Social and Political Transformation in the ‘New Europe’; M.Krzyzanowski & A.Galasinska Theorising and Analysing Social Change in Central and Eastern Europe: The Contribution of (Critical) Discourse Analysis; M.Krzyzanowski & R.Wodak PART I: TRANSFORMATION(S) OF THE PUBLIC SPHERE (I) – DISCOURSES OF MEDIA AND PUBLIC POLICY Reflecting Social Heteroglossia and Accommodating Diverse Audiences: A Challenge to the Media; B.Busch Contesting Social Space through Language Education Debates in Latvia’s Media Landscape; G.Hogan-Brun The (Re)Construction of Refugees in Slovenian Media; I.Ž.Žagar PART II: TRANSFORMATION(S) OF THE PUBLIC SPHERE (II) – DISCOURSES OF POLITICS, INSTITUTIONS AND ECONOMY On the ‘Europeanisation’ of Identity Constructions in Polish Political Discourse after 1989; M.Krzyzanowski Governing Abandoned Children: The Discursive Construction of Space in the Case of ‘Babybox’; I.Nosál Critical Juncture: Church Slavonic and the Discourse of Cultural Preservation in Post-Soviet Russia; B.P.Bennett Narrating Transition in East German Company Histories; H.Kelly-Holmes PART III: TRANSFORMATION(S) OF THE SEMI-PUBLIC/SEMI-PRIVATE AND PRIVATE SPHERES – DISCOURSE AND THE EXPERIENCE OF TRANSFORMATION ‘Mea culpa’: The Social Production of Public Disclosure and Reconciliation with the Past; C.Tileaga Small Stories Fight Back: Narratives of Polish Economic Migration on an Internet Forum; A.Galasinska Narratives of Disenfranchised Self in the Polish Post-Communist Reality; D.Galasinski Notes References Index

BRIAN P. BENNETT Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Niagara University, USA BRIGITTA BUSCH Senior Research Fellow, Department of Applied Linguistics, University of Vienna, Austria DARIUSZ GALASI?SKI Professor of Discourse and Cultural Studies, University of Wolverhampton, UK GABRIELLE HOGAN-BRUN Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bristol, UK HELEN KELLY-HOLMES Lecturer in Sociolinguistics with New Media, University of Limerick, Ireland IGOR NOSÁL Assistant Professor of Sociology, Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University at Brno, Czech Republic CRISTIAN TILEAG? Lecturer in the School of Psychology, University of East London, UK RUTH WODAK Distinguished Professor of Discourse Studies, Lancaster University, UK IGOR . AGAR Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Center for Discourse Studies at the Educational Research Institute, and Professor in Rhetoric and Argumentation at the Faculty of the Humanities, University of Primorska, Slovenia