1999/04/01 by RUDOLF DE CILLIA, Rudolf de Cillia, MARTIN REISIGL +3 · 4 citations
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #European Cultural and National Identity #Gender Studies in Language #Translation Studies and Practices
paper · doi:10.1177/0957926599010002002
openalex publication_date 1999/04/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
The concept of the nation as an imagined community has gained importance in the relevant literature during the last decade. How do we construct national identities in discourse? Which topics, which discursive strategies and which linguistic devices are employed to construct national sameness and uniqueness on the one hand, and differences to other national collectives on the other hand? These questions were investigated in our study on the Austrian nation and identity. Taking several current social scientific approaches as our point of departure, we have developed a method of description and analysis of these phenomena which has applications beyond the discursive production of national identity in the specific Austrian example studied. By focusing particularly on the discursive construction of (national) sameness, this study has broken new ground in discourse-historical analysis, which until now has mainly been concerned with the analysis of the discursive construction of difference.