This book offers a linguistic-semantic analysis of the expression 'Eastern Europe' in
international English-language media discourse and academic discourse. Interdisciplinary in
nature it provides insights beyond semantics and lexicology commenting on the politics
history economy and culture of the region. Its thorough analysis of 'Eastern Europe' as a
linguistic entity surrounded and affected by other linguistic entities allows for a
systematic description of the term's linguistic 'behaviour' in specialist written discourse.
The author measures the 'quantity' and 'quality' of 'Eastern Europe' in specialist discourse
painting a holistic picture of how it appears in English-language quality texts published in
the last twenty-five years. This book will appeal to students and scholars of cognitive
linguistics semantics lexicology and lexicography and to specialists working on history
political theory and international relations as they relate to Eastern Europe.
