The study focuses on the discursive construction of the UK’s identity in the European Union (EU) in the debates of the British House of Commons. The data come from the Hansard, and the time period analysed is from the start of the UK’s membership in the European Community (EC) in 1973 up to the general election of 2015, in which Brexit, that is, the national referendum on leaving the EU, was one of the main themes. Methods of corpus-assisted discourse studies (CADS) were adopted in the analysis of the debates. The findings suggest that even though the identity of a ‘leader’ in the EU has been frequently constructed in parliamentary discourse, a competing representation of the United Kingdom as an outsider and as a nation insecure of its role in the EU has been strongly present throughout the membership.

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核心与边缘：1973 年至 2015 年英国议会辩论中与欧盟相关的英国国家认同的话语建构

该研究侧重于英国下议院辩论中英国在欧盟 (EU) 中身份的话语建构。数据来源于Hansard，分析的时间段是从1973年英国开始加入欧洲共同体（EC）到2015年大选，其中英国脱欧，即关于退出欧盟的全民公投。欧盟，是主题之一。在辩论分析中采用了语料库辅助话语研究（CADS）的方法。调查结果表明，尽管欧盟“领导者”的身份经常被构建在议会话语中，但英国作为局外人和作为一个对其在欧盟中的角色不安全的国家的竞争性表征一直强烈存在。会员资格。