Abstract EU is a discursive field where multiple meanings and representations are created, negotiated and contested. Research has shown that the concept possess an interpretive power often used as an instrument of political confrontation. Such is the case, this study argues, with the two largest Macedonian parties – VMRO-DPMNE and the Social Democrats – who in a pursuit of changing or maintaining the power structuration in the society have produced a discourse on EU that best fits their political agendas. In a situation of a prolonged political crisis, and a significant involvement of EU, the two parties have commodified the discourse on EU into an instrument of self-promotion and/or criticism of the other. Demonstrating the instrumental use of the representations of EU by analysing the discursive strategies and the linguistic means deployed are the general aims of this study.

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战场欧盟

摘要 欧盟是一个话语领域，在这个领域，多重意义和表述被创造、协商和争论。研究表明，该概念具有解释力，通常用作政治对抗的工具。本研究认为，情况就是如此，马其顿最大的两个政党——VMRO-DPMNE 和社会民主党——为了改变或维持社会中的权力结构，已经产生了最适合其政治议程的关于欧盟的话语. 在长期的政治危机和欧盟大量介入的情况下，两党将关于欧盟的话语商品化为自我宣传和/或批评对方的工具。