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Open borders, closed minds : The discursive construction of national identity in North Cyprus

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The article investigates the discursive construction of a Turkish Cypriot national identity by the newspapers in North Cyprus. It questions the representation and reconstruction processes of national identity within the press and examines the various practices employed to mobilize readers around certain national imaginings. Using Critical Discourse Analysis, the article analyses news reports of the opening of border crossings in Cyprus in 2003, based on their content, the strategies used in the production of national identity and the linguistic means employed in the process. In this way, the nationalist tendencies embedded in news discourses, as well as discriminatory and exclusive practices, are sought out.

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Media Culture Society

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Publisher

Thousand Oak : sage publisher., 2011

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Language

English

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01634437

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Vol. 33 no. 4, May 2011,pp. 583-597

Subject(s)

National Identity
Open borders, closed minds
Cyprus
New discourse
Turkish Cypriot media

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