CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2007
| Author | Toro, Tibor |
|---|---|
| Title | Regional identity in elite discourse. The case study of Banat |
| Summary | The topic of the paper is to analyze and understand the discourse that different local academic, cultural and political elites use in order to construct a regional identity in Banat province from Romania, and to reveal the used discursive structures and peculiarities, which appear in this context. The paper can be included in the broader fields of regional studies and critical discourse analysis. The main question is why reference to regional identity appears in a specific form in the discourse of different regional academic, cultural and political elites. Therefore, the main objective of the paper is to identify the different strategies that are involved in the construction of the Banatean identity. Furthermore, I am interested in the existing discursive structures, more exactly whether there is a single discursive structure in which the discourses from the three different levels can be included. My main hypothesis is that the different social actors choose the discursive strategies in function of the goals they pursue, the context in which they appear and the target groups to whom they speak to. Similar discursive strategies can be used in different contexts, generating different meanings and outcomes. Social actors make references to the past in order to achieve the goals which they pursue or to accomplish the requirements of the role they fill in. Moreover, I argue that there is no single homogenous discursive structure that includes all the three – academic, cultural and political – levels. What is more, these discursive levels are heterogeneous as well. The boundaries of the different sub-discourses do not fit to the ones of the social levels, in many cases they are crosscutting these. |
| Supervisor | Kovacs , Andras |
| Department | Nationalism Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2007/toro_tibor.pdf |
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