Chapter 6
Gender, metaphor and migration in media representations
Discursive manipulations of the Other
This study discusses the gendered use of metaphors in the media texts collected from the U.S. and UK online media sources in the time span of two years (2015–2017) on the topic of the EU 2015 migration. Using Metaphor Identification Procedure (Pragglejaz Group 2007), 88 media texts were analysed, following the criteria of topicality and gender. The findings reveal how the evoked frames of quantifiable and tradable objects, natural phenomena, crimes, war and terrorism contribute to suppressing positive emotions, related to empathy or compassion. It is also determined how the collective media voice is twisted by such underlying categories as competition, hierarchy and dominance that create an ideological opposition and relegate the collective migrant to the Other.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Migration, metaphor and evaluation
- 3.Gender and the media
- 4.Data and method
- 5.Findings and discussion
- 5.1Migration metaphor use from the male perspective
- 5.2Migration metaphor use from the female perspective
- 6.Concluding remarks
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Notes
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