Eu Foreign Policy Through the Lens of Discourse Analysis: Making Sense of Diversity by Caterina Carta & Jean-Frédéric Morin

Author:Caterina Carta & Jean-Frédéric Morin [Carta, Caterina & Morin, Jean-Frédéric]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781409463771
Goodreads: 23067526
Publisher: Not Avail
Published: 2014-05-10T00:00:00+00:00

1 The authors are grateful to the editors of this volume as well as the participants of the ‘Speaking Europe Abroad: Institutional Cooperation and the Making of the EU’s Discourse’ workshop (Brussels, 14–15 February 2012), especially to its convenors, Caterina Carta and Jean-Frédéric Morin, and our discussant, Christian Olsson, for their detailed comments on earlier versions of this chapter. Our chapter has also benefited from the support of the project EU-IANUS (‘The EU In an Unsettled International System’), which is a research project funded by National R+D Plan of the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competiveness (CSO2012-33361).

2 For the purpose of clarity, this chapter follows the convention of referring to these metaphors in capital letters.

3 In total, the sample consists of 12 speeches for the European Commission President (Romano Prodi and José Manuel Barroso); 13 speeches for the High Representative (Javier Solana and Catherine Ashton); and 10 for the Commissioner for External Relations (Chris Patten and Benita Ferrero-Waldner). The sample was retrieved from the Commission and Council’s online archives using the following keywords in the title or text: ‘global’; ‘international’; ‘world’; and ‘multilateral’ or ‘multilateralism’. The selection was then refined according to relevance and representativeness criteria. To minimise differences in the audience, the vast majority of selected speeches were given inside the EU, and they are distributed evenly across time and actors analysed.

4 These analytical dimensions are inspired by the Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA) to CDA (see e.g., Reisigl and Wodak 2009), but adapted for the purpose of our research aims. For example, nomination and predication are considered in the DHA as separate discursive strategies, but given the closeness of the two concepts, we bundle them together under a single analytical category. Another adaptation is that prescription as such is not conceptualised as a separate discursive strategy in DHA, but implicitly considered within the argumentation strategy, which includes the analysis of the normative proposals or claims. For the purpose of our analysis, we refer to prescription separately and reserve argumentation for the analysis of justifications and topoi.

5 Topoi are defined as often implicit ‘warrants or “conclusion rules” which connect the argument(s) with the conclusion, the claim’ (Reisigl and Wodak 2009: 110). Given the topic under examination in this chapter, many of the relevant arguments and topoi have to do with assumptions about the opportunities and constraints offered by the international system as well as with standards of legitimacy.

6 All emphases in quotations are added by the authors of this chapter.

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