W drodze do Inclusive tożsamości?Niemiecki Postrzeganie Polaków

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Liesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks developed a theory about inclusive identity as an important factor for strengthening European identity. They assume that a person has multiple identities and for example can have a strong national attachment and be positively oriented to European integration and the idea of a European identity at the same time. According to Hooghe and Marks, this depends on whether a person conceives his or her national identity as exclusive or inclusive of other territorial identities. This thesis will not discuss whether there should be a European identity, whether this identity should be strong or weak or whether this really is the missing link to a more stable and democratic European Union. Instead, this thesis will attempt to examine whether a trend towards a stronger European identity is visible in media discourse. In order to measure this visibility, the central question of this research is to what extent has German printed media stimulated a positive change in the German perception of the Poles between 1989 and 2004? This question is derived from the idea that if media directly or indirectly stimulates a positive change in the perception one nation has of another nation, it could stimulate a more inclusive form of identity. By using a combination of two specific methods within the field of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), Dispositive Analysis and the Sociocognitive Approach, I was able to analyse german newspaper articles of Der Spiegel on the German perception of the Poles. Based on the analyses I came to the conlcusion that printed media does more than only inform readers about contemporary development, but should not be seen as an instrument that can stimulate a certain process in the long term.