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Concepts such as Semantic\/Thematic Roles, Force Dynamics and Symmetry were combined with analytic models from Discourse Studies to illustrate the Ideological Discourse Representations and the Positions in the Discourse Space (DS) of Social Actors. The linguistic hypotheses and generalisations were generated bottom up, departing from the regular patterns observable in the empirical data and extracting conclusions from them. The interpretative practice was, therefore, made in adherence to corpus evidence.<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>This integrated analysis has shown that the reconstruction of \u2018Portugal\u2019 and \u2018the Portuguese\u2019 vis-a-vis \u2018Europe\u2019, represented by \u2018Troika\u2019, corresponds to opponent positioning that polarise these entities, foregrounding the distance and the conflict between them and contributing to a vision of a disintegrated Europe. In fact, the reality depicted in the opinion articles analysed was a polarised reality, in the sense that these articles repeatedly used linguistic constructions that placed (through several rhetoric devices that will be analysed) Europe and Troika on one \u2018pole\u2019 and \u2018The Portuguese\u2019 on the other \u2018pole\u2019, expressing, thus, the movement of the actors to polar opposites.<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>On the theoretical level, this chapter proposes an integrated approach towards opinion discourse in the press, combining Critical Discourse analytic and DS Theory perspectives with the insights from Socio-Cognitive approach by Van Dijk and aspects of Cognitive Linguistics by Talmy.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1108\/978-1-78714-513-920171009","type":"book-chapter","created":{"date-parts":[[2017,8,11]],"date-time":"2017-08-11T08:04:17Z","timestamp":1502438657000},"page":"187-209","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Towards a (Dis)Integrated 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