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This book is based on the research project “The Formation, Develop-
ment, and Uses of the Concept of Europe in Slovenian Newspapers
in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century,” which was carried out at
the Educational Research Institute from February 2008 to February 2011.
During the research project, reports published in Delo and Dnevnik on six
watershed events for Europe were analyzed: the Hungarian Revolution of
1956, the closure of the border between the two German states and the be-
ginning of construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961, the student uprising
and general strike in France in 1968, the occupation of Czechoslovakia in
1968, the introduction of martial law in Poland in 1981, and the fall of the
Berlin Wall in 1989.
The events were analyzed using critical discourse analysis (CDA), which
includes both linguistic analysis and analysis of argumentation in selected
(in this case, newspaper) discourse as well as simultaneous analysis of his-
torical, political, and social backgrounds and the conditions for this dis-
course. The first part of the volume consists of research reports and materi-
als on these events; that is, texts that are directly connected to the research.
The second part comprises texts representing a more detailed and broad-
er treatment of two watershed years in particular: 1968 and 1989, or the
events that, during the course of this research, turned out to be the most
important for shaping the concept of Europe as it is known today. The year
1968 was the first mass-movement and specifically politically articulated
problematization of the postwar sociopolitical arrangement in both the
capitalist West and the communist East. On both sides of the Iron Cur-
This book is based on the research project “The Formation, Develop-
ment, and Uses of the Concept of Europe in Slovenian Newspapers
in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century,” which was carried out at
the Educational Research Institute from February 2008 to February 2011.
During the research project, reports published in Delo and Dnevnik on six
watershed events for Europe were analyzed: the Hungarian Revolution of
1956, the closure of the border between the two German states and the be-
ginning of construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961, the student uprising
and general strike in France in 1968, the occupation of Czechoslovakia in
1968, the introduction of martial law in Poland in 1981, and the fall of the
Berlin Wall in 1989.
The events were analyzed using critical discourse analysis (CDA), which
includes both linguistic analysis and analysis of argumentation in selected
(in this case, newspaper) discourse as well as simultaneous analysis of his-
torical, political, and social backgrounds and the conditions for this dis-
course. The first part of the volume consists of research reports and materi-
als on these events; that is, texts that are directly connected to the research.
The second part comprises texts representing a more detailed and broad-
er treatment of two watershed years in particular: 1968 and 1989, or the
events that, during the course of this research, turned out to be the most
important for shaping the concept of Europe as it is known today. The year
1968 was the first mass-movement and specifically politically articulated
problematization of the postwar sociopolitical arrangement in both the
capitalist West and the communist East. On both sides of the Iron Cur-
