Chapter published in:
Migration and Media: Discourses about identities in crisisEdited by Lorella Viola and Andreas Musolff
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 81] 2019
► pp. 291–316
Preaching from a distant pulpit
The European migrant crisis seen through a New York Times editorial and reader comments
Michael S. Boyd | Università Roma Tre
On 18 September 2015, in the midst of the greatest movement of refugees and migrants that Europe has seen since the Second World War, The New York Times published an editorial entitled “Europe should see refugees as a Boon, not as a Burden.” Not surprisingly, the article received well over 450 comments from readers reflecting the myriad of opinions about the complex issue of (European) migration and refugees. This paper is interested in the discourses about (European) migration that emerge from both the editorial and reader comments. Partially inspired by Text World Theory (Werth 1995), the study attempts to determine readers’ varying opinions about the issue and how this reflects and/or diverges from the view(s) presented by the editorial.
Keywords: 2015 European migrant crisis, Editorials, Critical Discourse Analysis, Text World Theory, New Media, Corpus Linguistics
Published online: 07 March 2019
https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.81.13boy
https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.81.13boy
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