Language & Intercultural Communication
Editor: Dr John Corbett (University of Glasgow)
Associate Editor: Robert Crawshaw (Lancaster University)
Reviews and Criticism Editor: Dr Fiona J. Doloughan (University of Surrey)
Editorial Board: Gavin Jack (University of Stirling)
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Volume: 6 Number: 3-4 Page: 188–210
doi:10.2167/laic247.0
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Seeing Europe Through the Eyes of Others: How ‘Local’ is the EU in Asia-Pacific News?
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Natalia Chaban1, Jessica Bain1, Katrina Stats2 and Paveena Sutthisripok3
1National Centre for Research on Europe, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, 2School of History and Politics, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia and 3The Multidisciplinary Department of European Studies, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
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With the advent of European unity, understandings of the terms ‘Europe’ and ‘European’ have become even more complicated than they were before. A contested concept within its borders, how is ‘Europe’ understood and seen from the outside? This paper deals with the under-researched issue of public perceptions of the European Union (EU) outside its borders, and the role of the international media in shaping such perceptions. The study addresses a (con)textual perspective in image creation, treating international news media discourse both as a product and as a process. The domestic contextualisation of images of the EU in Asia-Pacific news texts is scrutinised in order to assess features of the content of the EU news texts as well as regional newsmakers' attitudes and behaviours when representing the EU.
Keywords: Asia-Pacific, context, text, EU, domesticity, imagology, news
© 2006 N. Chaban et al.
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