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Discursive Narration of the Collective Self in the International Speeches of the Baltic Presidents

National identities are fluid and artificial rather than natural and static concepts that have been investigated by numerous scholars through the later part of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century. A common agreement is that group identities are negotiated, constructed, perpetuated, transformed, and in some instances, also destructed through discourse as a social practice. Thus, it is seen to be imperative for independent nation-states that are part of larger supra-national bodies to construct and upkeep their national identity not only on the group-internal level, but also to negotiate and represent the identity internationally. Moreover, the construction of a unified collective self may pertain to forming effective international partnerships which can foster the achievement of common supra-national, international, and individual national goals. Therefore, the current study employs Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis (CACDA) to investigate how the presidents of the Baltic States have negotiated their respective national identities in international meetings in the period from the early 1990s until 2021 via the various discursive strategies and linguistic means of collective self-presentation and what common goals have been represented in the process of forming international partnerships.