Constructing History, Society & Politics in Discourse

Inger Lassen is Professor, Ph.D. at the Department of Language and Culture, Aalborg University, Denmark. Research Disciplines: Research disciplines: Applied Linguistics, Critical Discourse Analysis, Systemic Functional Linguistics, genre analysis, public opinion research. Jeanne Strunck is MA: major in French and minor in Danish. Ph.D,. in French Linguistics and Business Communication, at the Department of Language and Culture, Aalborg University, Denmark. Torben Vestergaard is Associate Professor at the Department of Language and Culture, Aalborg University, Denmark.

• Constructing history, society and politics in discourse -- Multimodal approaches; The Frozen oppositional mode; How the Asahi Newspaper argued its editorial stance toward the U.S. attack on Afghanistan; Risk Discourse -- The Ideological Labour of the Press after September 11; Asking the "difficult" questions -- a comparative case study of British and Irish current affairs coverage in the immediate aftermath of September 11; Between memory and taboo -- On the constructing of images of history in Austrian mass media discourse; Identity discourse and the construction of images -- The role of Le Soir in the Belgian identity debate; A Quest for dialogism -- looking back at Italian political violence in the 70s; Selling Mozart in Salzburg -- Multisystemiotic approach; Political discourse in the feminine manifestation -- Social identity.