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Discourses about identities in crisis
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Lorella Viola
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Utrecht University
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Andreas Musolff
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The socio-discursive landscape surrounding the migration debate is characterised by a growing sense of crisis in both personal and collective identities. From this viewpoint, discourses about immigration are also always attempts at reconstructing the threatened ‘home identity’ of the respective host society. It is such attempts at reasserting identity-in-crisis (due to migration) that are the focus of the volume <i>Migration and Media: Discourses about identities in crisis</i>. This four-part book explores the representational strategies used to frame current migration debates as crises of identity, collective and individual. It features fourteen case-studies of varying sets of data including print media texts, TV broadcasts, online forums, politicians’ speeches, legal and administrative texts, and oral narratives, drawn from discourses in a range of languages – Croatian, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, and Ukrainian – , and it employs different discourse-analytical methods, such as Argumentation and Metaphor Analysis, Gendered Language Studies, Corpus-assisted Semantics and Pragmatics, and Proximization Theory. Such a diverse range of sources, languages, and approaches provides innovative methodological and theoretical analysis on migration and identity which will be of interest to scholars, students, and policy makers working in the fields of migration studies, media studies, identity studies, and social and public policy.<br />As of January 2023, this e-book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched.
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The volume <i>Migration and Media</i> appeals undoubtedly to a variety of academic disciplines beyond linguistics: researchers in migration, ethnic and area studies, anthropology, history, politics and sociology can find valuable insights and inspiration for their research.
Aleksandra Salamurovic, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, in Journal of Language and Politics 19:4 (2020)
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Analysing media coverage of migrants is intrinsically interesting, particularly because by influencing both the public and policy makers, it significantly impacts on the way that migrants and the host society interact. Migrants are often depicted in the media as a burden to the host societies, or blamed for complex socio-economic problems, but what we realised by analysing media discourse was that host societies are seen more and more as being threatened in their core existence by “migrants”, “asylum seekers”, and “refugees”. These categories often blend into each other to form one threatening entity. Understanding how migrants are represented in the media is therefore key to understand the growing sense of crisis in both personal and collective identities that dominates the socio-discursive landscape of migration. And this is precisely the focus of this volume.
Excerpt from the interview with the editors on 5 February 2019 by Eastminster (http://www.ueapolitics.org/author/alexrd/)
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Drawing on a diverse range of methods and data sets, the contributors to this collection provide an in-depth investigation of migrant discourse that highlights the crucial role of language in constructing a causal relationship between migration and national identities in crisis. In short, this collection sheds new light on a timely topic that will likely remain significant for years to come.
Farah Ali, Gettysburg College, on Linguist List 31.159 (10 January 2020)
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Ruth Wodak
Wodak, Ruth
Ruth
Wodak
Lancaster University
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Introduction
Migration and crisis identity
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Andreas Musolff
Musolff, Andreas
Andreas
Musolff
University of East Anglia
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Lorella Viola
Viola, Lorella
Lorella
Viola
Utrecht University
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Part I. Framing migration as a crisis of identity I
Representational strategies
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Chapter 1. A comparative analysis of the keyword <i>multicultural(ism)</i> in French, British, German and Italian migration discourse
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Melani Schröter
Schröter, Melani
Melani
Schröter
University of Reading
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Marie Veniard
Veniard, Marie
Marie
Veniard
Université Paris Descartes
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Charlotte Taylor
Taylor, Charlotte
Charlotte
Taylor
University of Sussex
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Andreas Blätte
Blätte, Andreas
Andreas
Blätte
Universität Duisburg-Essen
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corpus-assisted discourse studies
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cultural keywords
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discourse
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migration
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This chapter looks into discourses about migration in four European countries through the lens of cultural keywords (cf. Williams 1983; Bennett et al. 2005; Wierzbicka 1997); using Corpus Assisted Discourse Analysis, it compares the use of the keywords <i>multicultural</i> and <i>multiculturalism</i>. The study is based on corpora from British, French, German and Italian newspaper articles covering the time span 1998–2012, collated from one conservative and one left-liberal national newspaper in each language.<br />Across the languages, the results show that the adjective <i>multicultural</i> is mostly descriptive of a state of affairs, typically without negative evaluation, and that the noun <i>multiculturalism</i> is associated with abstract concepts and points to a more negative discourse prosody, indicated by collocates such as ‘failure’.
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Chapter 2. <i>Polentone</i> vs <i>terrone</i>
A discourse-historical analysis of media representation of Italian internal migration
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Lorella Viola
Viola, Lorella
Lorella
Viola
Utrecht University
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corpus-based CDA
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discriminating discourse
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identity
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Italian internal migration
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Othering
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This article explores how the internal conflict between the Italian Northern and Southern regions’ ideologies is linguistically apparent in the use of the discriminating words <i>polentone</i> (literally, <i>polenta</i> eater) attached to people from the North and <i>terrone</i> (literally, person from the land) referred to people from the South. The research hypothesis is that, although at first these terms appear to carry a similar derogatory connotation, <i>terrone</i> is in fact more offensive<i>.</i> It is argued here that such difference may find its roots in the Italian central government political strategies which, by historically favouring one part of the country to the disadvantage of the other, have factually aggravated the production and reproduction of discriminatory prejudices against the South. By using the “discourse-historical approach” (Wodak 2001), the study triangulates linguistic, social and historical data to unveil correlations between the discursive discrimination against Italian intra-migrants and the implicit ideologies circulated by governmental choices.
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Chapter 3. Featuring immigrants and citizens
A comparison between Spanish and English primary legislation and administration information texts (2007–2011)
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Purificación Sánchez
Sánchez, Purificación
Purificación
Sánchez
University of Murcia
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Pilar Aguado-Jimenez
Aguado-Jimenez, Pilar
Pilar
Aguado-Jimenez
University of Murcia
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Pascual Pérez-Paredes
Pérez-Paredes, Pascual
Pascual
Pérez-Paredes
University of Cambridge
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administration
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citizens
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corpus linguistics
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critical discourse analysis
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immigrants
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information texts
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This study highlights the different approaches to the construction of immigrants and citizens that United Kingdom and Spain seem to have favoured in the period 2007–2011. A corpus of legislation (EN-1, SP-1) and another of information texts (EN-3, SP-3) produced by the administrations of both countries were compiled during the period 2007–2011 and the terms “immigrant”, “inmigrante”, “citizen” and “ciudadano” were profiled through collocation analysis. Regarding “immigrant” and “inmigrante”, our results show that while the British administration is interested in control procedures for immigrants, the Spanish one advocates their integration. As for “citizen” and “ciudadano” the first term is related to regulation of entry, registration and naturalization, whereas “ciudadano” appears mainly associated to the EU, residence and access to public services.
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Argumentation, pragmatic and figurative strategies
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Chapter 4. A humanitarian disaster or invasion of Europe?
2015 migrant crisis in the British press
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Zeynep Cihan Koca-Helvacı
Koca-Helvacı, Zeynep Cihan
Zeynep Cihan
Koca-Helvacı
Dokuz Eylul University
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British press
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discourse topics
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immigration
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media attitude
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social actors
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This study sought to find out how language resources were employed to reflect the changing media attitude towards immigrants during the 2015 Migrant Crisis. Combining relevant analytical categories of the Socio-Cognitive Approach (Van Dijk 1991), the Discourse-Historical Approach (Wodak 2001) and the Social Actor Analysis (van Leeuwen 2008) with Corpus Linguistic techniques, it compared the British media coverage of two critical cases; the Death of Aylan Kurdi, and the Cologne Sexual Assaults. The findings show that in both cases, regardless of news content, immigration was problematized as a <i>crisis</i>, <i>controversy</i>, and <i>catastrophe</i>. The scale of the tragedy and the possibility of an immigrant influx to the UK deeply influenced the media representation of the immigrants.
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Chapter 5. Aspects of threat construction in the Polish anti-immigration discourse
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Piotr Cap
Cap, Piotr
Piotr
Cap
University of Łódź
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anti-immigration discourse
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Law & Justice Party
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legitimization
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Poland
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proximization
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threat construction
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Proximization Theory (PT) (Cap 2008, 2010, 2013, 2017; among others) is a cognitive-critical model that accounts for the ways in which the discursive construction of closeness and remoteness can be manipulated in the political sphere and bound up with fear, security and conflict. This article applies PT in the domain of state political discourse in today's Poland, outlining strategies whereby anti-immigration stance and policies are legitimized by discursively constructed fear appeals and other coercion patterns. It demonstrates how the ‘emerging’, ‘growing’, ‘gathering’ threats – physical as well as ideological – are construed by the Polish right-wing government, who thus claim their right to oppose EU immigration agreements and pursue strict anti-immigration measures.
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Chapter 6. Gender, metaphor and migration in media representations
Discursive manipulations of the <i>Other</i>
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Liudmila Arcimaviciene
Arcimaviciene, Liudmila
Liudmila
Arcimaviciene
Vilnius University
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evaluation
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gender
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media discourse
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metaphor
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migration
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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 <i>Other</i>.
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Part III. Multimodal crisis communication
Migration discourses across different media
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Chapter 7. Practical reasoning and metaphor in TV discussions on immigration in Greece
Exchanges and changes
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Eleni Butulussi
Butulussi, Eleni
Eleni
Butulussi
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
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frames
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immigration
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integrated
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This article investigates the dynamic processes taking place in relation to the choice of specific fixed metaphors which function as framing devices by rival politicians to reinforce their proposals for action in the media immigration discourse of Greek TV discussions (1996-2016). In this research context a critical, integrated, multi-level metaphor analysis model is suggested which combines different methods (see Cameron 2008; Fairclough et al. 2012; Charteris-Black 2014; Musolff 2016; Semino et al. 2016) for a linguistic, cognitive and discursive-communicative-rhetorical analysis in the context of practical reasoning focusing on the framing power of metaphor. Results revealed that around these metaphors the different political ideologies are framed in agreement with the rhetorical tendencies (e.g simplification, bipolarization, hyperbole) of the political media discourse.
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Chapter 8. The Great Wall of Europe
Verbal and multimodal portrayals of Europe’s migrant crisis in Serbian media discourse
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Nadežda Silaški
Silaški, Nadežda
Nadežda
Silaški
University of Belgrade
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Tatjana Đurović
Đurović, Tatjana
Tatjana
Đurović
University of Belgrade
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BERLIN WALL scenario
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EU
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FORTRESS EUROPE scenario
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metaphor scenario
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migrant crisis
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multimodality
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Serbia
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WALL metaphor
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Complementing the theoretical framework of Critical Metaphor Analysis (Charteris-Black 2004; Musolff 2004, 2011) with research on multimodality from a cognitive viewpoint (Bounegru and Forceville 2011), in the chapter we deal with both linguistic and multimodal instantiations of the <sc>wall</sc> metaphor in Serbian media texts published in 2015 in an attempt to identify the most frequent metaphor scenarios modelled around this concept in a critical period during the European migrant crisis. Two major metaphor scenarios (Musolff 2006) triggered by the <sc>wall</sc> metaphor arise – <sc>fortress europe</sc> and <sc>berlin wall</sc>, both appearing to be instrumental in communicating the notions of marginalisation and non-belongingness to the EU space, emanating from verbally and visually constructed image of both migrants and the Serbian nation.
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Chapter 9. Representations of the 2015/2016 “migrant crisis” on the online portals of Croatian and Serbian public broadcasters
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Ljiljana Šarić
Šarić, Ljiljana
Ljiljana
Šarić
University of Oslo
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Tatjana Radanović Felberg
Felberg, Tatjana Radanović
Tatjana Radanović
Felberg
OsloMet - Oslo Metropolitan University
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Croatian public broadcaster
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migrant "crisis"
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Serbian public broadcaster
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the Balkan route
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This chapter investigates the verbal and visual representation of migration and migrants in Croatian and Serbian public broadcasters’ online portals during the “migrant crisis” in 2015/2016. The study shows that migrants are generally positively represented, which is congruent with the official policies of Croatia and Serbia. This positive representation was frequently used for positive self-evaluation of these countries’ influential social actors, and negative evaluation of neighboring countries. The chapter employs macro- and micro-linguistic analysis within the theoretical framework of critical discourse analysis and multimodal analysis.
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Chapter 10. Representation of unaccompanied migrant children from Central America in the United States
Media vs. migrant perspectives
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Theresa Catalano
Catalano, Theresa
Theresa
Catalano
University of Arizona
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Jessica Mitchell-McCollough
Mitchell-McCollough, Jessica
Jessica
Mitchell-McCollough
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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Central America
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media discourse
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multimodal critical discourse analysis
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This chapter examines the representation of unaccompanied minors fleeing Central America (namely Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador) in U.S. online national news sources over a one-year period and compares this to the way these children talk about their own perceptions of migration and their motivation for moving. Data collection consisted of online news reports on unaccompanied minors from Central America in the United States as well as interviews with children collected from the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and other humanitarian organizations. Multimodal critical discourse analysis reveals a qualitative difference in discourse (e.g., use of metaphor, metonymy, deixis and visual elements) that varies depending on whether the sources are media reports or personal accounts from the children themselves.
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Virtual crisis experience
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Chapter 11. Displaced Ukrainians
Russo-Ukrainian discussions of victims from the conflict zone in Eastern Ukraine
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Ludmilla A'Beckett
A'Beckett, Ludmilla
Ludmilla
A'Beckett
University of the Free State
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catastrophe scenario
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disparaging expressions
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humanitarianism
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negativisation
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numerical elements
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official media
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Russia
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scroungers
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social media
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stereotypes
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Ukraine
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This paper compares several discourse representations of migrants in the British media with the data on Ukrainian displaced people from the conflict zone in Eastern Ukraine. The comparison shows that mainstream media in Russia and Ukraine attempt to depict displaced Ukrainians sympathetically, to win the hearts and minds of the people from the disputed conflict zone and to evoke approval from the international community. Participants in online debates in both countries actively use different techniques of negativisation of the images of migrants. They often either rely on a novel vocabulary for abuses or adapt old disparaging expressions activating cultural prejudices. The paper concludes that Russian and Ukrainian sets of abuse developed during the confrontation reinforce the specifics of the national vision of the conflict development.
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Chapter 12. Preaching from a distant pulpit
The European migrant crisis seen through a <i>New York Times</i> editorial and reader comments
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Michael S. Boyd
Boyd, Michael S.
Michael S.
Boyd
Università Roma Tre
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2015 European migrant crisis
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Corpus Linguistics
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Critical Discourse Analysis
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Editorials
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New Media
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Text World Theory
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On 18 September 2015, in the midst of the greatest movement of refugees and migrants that Europe has seen since the Second World War, <i>The New York Times</i> 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.
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Chapter 13. Discourses of immigration and integration in German newspaper comments
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Janet M. Fuller
Fuller, Janet M.
Janet M.
Fuller
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
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Ethnonational ideologies
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German identity
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Immigration
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Integration
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This chapter employs a critical, constructivist theoretical perspective to address how online commenters on articles in the liberal newspaper <i>Die Zeit</i> characterize immigrants, integration, and German identity. While the formerly dominant ethnonational ideology about German identity is now in the minority, there is nonetheless a strong tendency to categorize and characterize immigrant background residents according to ethnonational and religious criteria. A hierarchy of immigrants has emerged, with a discourse that positions Muslims in general, and Turks in particular, as the unintegrated Other. Because Germanness is defined in opposition to Muslim practices, integration for such residents is impossible. However, the presence of competing discourses is significant; through voices that point out discrimination and view integration as a two-way process, social change may be enacted.
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Chapter 14. “They have lived in our street for six years now and still don’t speak a work [!] of English”
Scenarios of alleged linguistic underperformance as part of anti-immigrant discourses
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Andreas Musolff
Musolff, Andreas
Andreas
Musolff
University of East Anglia
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computer-mediated communication
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culture mix
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immigration
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migration
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multiculturalism
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multilingualism
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on-line forums
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scenario
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superdiversity
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Whilst sociolinguistic superdiversity is often viewed as an almost irreversible global development, there may be a question mark over whether the ‘mix of cultures’, which mass migration allegedly fosters, does in fact lead to an acceptance of multilingualism and/or multiculturalism in the respective societies. On the basis of public discourse data from press media and Internet forums, this paper explores popular attitudes the effects of mass immigration, which appear to express an endorsement of monolingual/monocultural societies. Using methods of argumentation theory, pragmatics and discourse-historical triangulation, the article argues that findings of a global rise in superdiversity as regards usage data need to be complemented by studies of divergent perception patterns at local/national levels.
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The socio-discursive landscape surrounding the migration debate is characterised by a growing sense of crisis in both personal and collective identities. From this viewpoint, discourses about immigration are also always attempts at reconstructing the threatened ‘home identity’ of the respective host society. It is such attempts at reasserting identity-in-crisis (due to migration) that are the focus of the volume <i>Migration and Media: Discourses about identities in crisis</i>. This four-part book explores the representational strategies used to frame current migration debates as crises of identity, collective and individual. It features fourteen case-studies of varying sets of data including print media texts, TV broadcasts, online forums, politicians’ speeches, legal and administrative texts, and oral narratives, drawn from discourses in a range of languages – Croatian, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, and Ukrainian – , and it employs different discourse-analytical methods, such as Argumentation and Metaphor Analysis, Gendered Language Studies, Corpus-assisted Semantics and Pragmatics, and Proximization Theory. Such a diverse range of sources, languages, and approaches provides innovative methodological and theoretical analysis on migration and identity which will be of interest to scholars, students, and policy makers working in the fields of migration studies, media studies, identity studies, and social and public policy.<br />As of January 2023, this e-book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched.
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The volume <i>Migration and Media</i> appeals undoubtedly to a variety of academic disciplines beyond linguistics: researchers in migration, ethnic and area studies, anthropology, history, politics and sociology can find valuable insights and inspiration for their research.
Aleksandra Salamurovic, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, in Journal of Language and Politics 19:4 (2020)
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Analysing media coverage of migrants is intrinsically interesting, particularly because by influencing both the public and policy makers, it significantly impacts on the way that migrants and the host society interact. Migrants are often depicted in the media as a burden to the host societies, or blamed for complex socio-economic problems, but what we realised by analysing media discourse was that host societies are seen more and more as being threatened in their core existence by “migrants”, “asylum seekers”, and “refugees”. These categories often blend into each other to form one threatening entity. Understanding how migrants are represented in the media is therefore key to understand the growing sense of crisis in both personal and collective identities that dominates the socio-discursive landscape of migration. And this is precisely the focus of this volume.
Excerpt from the interview with the editors on 5 February 2019 by Eastminster (http://www.ueapolitics.org/author/alexrd/)
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Drawing on a diverse range of methods and data sets, the contributors to this collection provide an in-depth investigation of migrant discourse that highlights the crucial role of language in constructing a causal relationship between migration and national identities in crisis. In short, this collection sheds new light on a timely topic that will likely remain significant for years to come.
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Preface
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Ruth Wodak
Wodak, Ruth
Ruth
Wodak
Lancaster University
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Introduction
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Introduction
Migration and crisis identity
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Andreas Musolff
Musolff, Andreas
Andreas
Musolff
University of East Anglia
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Lorella Viola
Viola, Lorella
Lorella
Viola
Utrecht University
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Part I. Framing migration as a crisis of identity I
Representational strategies
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Chapter 1. A comparative analysis of the keyword <i>multicultural(ism)</i> in French, British, German and Italian migration discourse
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Melani Schröter
Schröter, Melani
Melani
Schröter
University of Reading
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Marie Veniard
Veniard, Marie
Marie
Veniard
Université Paris Descartes
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Charlotte Taylor
Taylor, Charlotte
Charlotte
Taylor
University of Sussex
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Andreas Blätte
Blätte, Andreas
Andreas
Blätte
Universität Duisburg-Essen
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corpus-assisted discourse studies
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cultural keywords
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discourse
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migration
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multicultural(ism)
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This chapter looks into discourses about migration in four European countries through the lens of cultural keywords (cf. Williams 1983; Bennett et al. 2005; Wierzbicka 1997); using Corpus Assisted Discourse Analysis, it compares the use of the keywords <i>multicultural</i> and <i>multiculturalism</i>. The study is based on corpora from British, French, German and Italian newspaper articles covering the time span 1998–2012, collated from one conservative and one left-liberal national newspaper in each language.<br />Across the languages, the results show that the adjective <i>multicultural</i> is mostly descriptive of a state of affairs, typically without negative evaluation, and that the noun <i>multiculturalism</i> is associated with abstract concepts and points to a more negative discourse prosody, indicated by collocates such as ‘failure’.
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Chapter 2. <i>Polentone</i> vs <i>terrone</i>
A discourse-historical analysis of media representation of Italian internal migration
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Lorella Viola
Viola, Lorella
Lorella
Viola
Utrecht University
20
corpus-based CDA
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discriminating discourse
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identity
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Italian internal migration
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Othering
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This article explores how the internal conflict between the Italian Northern and Southern regions’ ideologies is linguistically apparent in the use of the discriminating words <i>polentone</i> (literally, <i>polenta</i> eater) attached to people from the North and <i>terrone</i> (literally, person from the land) referred to people from the South. The research hypothesis is that, although at first these terms appear to carry a similar derogatory connotation, <i>terrone</i> is in fact more offensive<i>.</i> It is argued here that such difference may find its roots in the Italian central government political strategies which, by historically favouring one part of the country to the disadvantage of the other, have factually aggravated the production and reproduction of discriminatory prejudices against the South. By using the “discourse-historical approach” (Wodak 2001), the study triangulates linguistic, social and historical data to unveil correlations between the discursive discrimination against Italian intra-migrants and the implicit ideologies circulated by governmental choices.
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Chapter 3. Featuring immigrants and citizens
A comparison between Spanish and English primary legislation and administration information texts (2007–2011)
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Purificación Sánchez
Sánchez, Purificación
Purificación
Sánchez
University of Murcia
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Pilar Aguado-Jimenez
Aguado-Jimenez, Pilar
Pilar
Aguado-Jimenez
University of Murcia
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Pascual Pérez-Paredes
Pérez-Paredes, Pascual
Pascual
Pérez-Paredes
University of Cambridge
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administration
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citizens
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corpus linguistics
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critical discourse analysis
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immigrants
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information texts
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This study highlights the different approaches to the construction of immigrants and citizens that United Kingdom and Spain seem to have favoured in the period 2007–2011. A corpus of legislation (EN-1, SP-1) and another of information texts (EN-3, SP-3) produced by the administrations of both countries were compiled during the period 2007–2011 and the terms “immigrant”, “inmigrante”, “citizen” and “ciudadano” were profiled through collocation analysis. Regarding “immigrant” and “inmigrante”, our results show that while the British administration is interested in control procedures for immigrants, the Spanish one advocates their integration. As for “citizen” and “ciudadano” the first term is related to regulation of entry, registration and naturalization, whereas “ciudadano” appears mainly associated to the EU, residence and access to public services.
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Part II. Framing migration as a crisis of identity II
Argumentation, pragmatic and figurative strategies
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Chapter 4. A humanitarian disaster or invasion of Europe?
2015 migrant crisis in the British press
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Zeynep Cihan Koca-Helvacı
Koca-Helvacı, Zeynep Cihan
Zeynep Cihan
Koca-Helvacı
Dokuz Eylul University
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British press
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discourse topics
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immigration
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media attitude
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social actors
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This study sought to find out how language resources were employed to reflect the changing media attitude towards immigrants during the 2015 Migrant Crisis. Combining relevant analytical categories of the Socio-Cognitive Approach (Van Dijk 1991), the Discourse-Historical Approach (Wodak 2001) and the Social Actor Analysis (van Leeuwen 2008) with Corpus Linguistic techniques, it compared the British media coverage of two critical cases; the Death of Aylan Kurdi, and the Cologne Sexual Assaults. The findings show that in both cases, regardless of news content, immigration was problematized as a <i>crisis</i>, <i>controversy</i>, and <i>catastrophe</i>. The scale of the tragedy and the possibility of an immigrant influx to the UK deeply influenced the media representation of the immigrants.
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Chapter 5. Aspects of threat construction in the Polish anti-immigration discourse
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Piotr Cap
Cap, Piotr
Piotr
Cap
University of Łódź
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anti-immigration discourse
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Law & Justice Party
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legitimization
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Poland
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proximization
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threat construction
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Proximization Theory (PT) (Cap 2008, 2010, 2013, 2017; among others) is a cognitive-critical model that accounts for the ways in which the discursive construction of closeness and remoteness can be manipulated in the political sphere and bound up with fear, security and conflict. This article applies PT in the domain of state political discourse in today's Poland, outlining strategies whereby anti-immigration stance and policies are legitimized by discursively constructed fear appeals and other coercion patterns. It demonstrates how the ‘emerging’, ‘growing’, ‘gathering’ threats – physical as well as ideological – are construed by the Polish right-wing government, who thus claim their right to oppose EU immigration agreements and pursue strict anti-immigration measures.
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Chapter 6. Gender, metaphor and migration in media representations
Discursive manipulations of the <i>Other</i>
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Liudmila Arcimaviciene
Arcimaviciene, Liudmila
Liudmila
Arcimaviciene
Vilnius University
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evaluation
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gender
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media discourse
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metaphor
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migration
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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 <i>Other</i>.
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Part III. Multimodal crisis communication
Migration discourses across different media
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Chapter 7. Practical reasoning and metaphor in TV discussions on immigration in Greece
Exchanges and changes
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Eleni Butulussi
Butulussi, Eleni
Eleni
Butulussi
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
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frames
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immigration
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integrated
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metaphor analysis (critical
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multi-level)
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practical reasoning
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scenarios
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TV discussions
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This article investigates the dynamic processes taking place in relation to the choice of specific fixed metaphors which function as framing devices by rival politicians to reinforce their proposals for action in the media immigration discourse of Greek TV discussions (1996-2016). In this research context a critical, integrated, multi-level metaphor analysis model is suggested which combines different methods (see Cameron 2008; Fairclough et al. 2012; Charteris-Black 2014; Musolff 2016; Semino et al. 2016) for a linguistic, cognitive and discursive-communicative-rhetorical analysis in the context of practical reasoning focusing on the framing power of metaphor. Results revealed that around these metaphors the different political ideologies are framed in agreement with the rhetorical tendencies (e.g simplification, bipolarization, hyperbole) of the political media discourse.
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Chapter 8. The Great Wall of Europe
Verbal and multimodal portrayals of Europe’s migrant crisis in Serbian media discourse
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Nadežda Silaški
Silaški, Nadežda
Nadežda
Silaški
University of Belgrade
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Tatjana Đurović
Đurović, Tatjana
Tatjana
Đurović
University of Belgrade
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BERLIN WALL scenario
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EU
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FORTRESS EUROPE scenario
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metaphor scenario
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migrant crisis
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multimodality
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Serbia
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WALL metaphor
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Complementing the theoretical framework of Critical Metaphor Analysis (Charteris-Black 2004; Musolff 2004, 2011) with research on multimodality from a cognitive viewpoint (Bounegru and Forceville 2011), in the chapter we deal with both linguistic and multimodal instantiations of the <sc>wall</sc> metaphor in Serbian media texts published in 2015 in an attempt to identify the most frequent metaphor scenarios modelled around this concept in a critical period during the European migrant crisis. Two major metaphor scenarios (Musolff 2006) triggered by the <sc>wall</sc> metaphor arise – <sc>fortress europe</sc> and <sc>berlin wall</sc>, both appearing to be instrumental in communicating the notions of marginalisation and non-belongingness to the EU space, emanating from verbally and visually constructed image of both migrants and the Serbian nation.
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Chapter 9. Representations of the 2015/2016 “migrant crisis” on the online portals of Croatian and Serbian public broadcasters
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Ljiljana Šarić
Šarić, Ljiljana
Ljiljana
Šarić
University of Oslo
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Tatjana Radanović Felberg
Felberg, Tatjana Radanović
Tatjana Radanović
Felberg
OsloMet - Oslo Metropolitan University
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Croatian public broadcaster
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migrant "crisis"
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Serbian public broadcaster
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the Balkan route
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This chapter investigates the verbal and visual representation of migration and migrants in Croatian and Serbian public broadcasters’ online portals during the “migrant crisis” in 2015/2016. The study shows that migrants are generally positively represented, which is congruent with the official policies of Croatia and Serbia. This positive representation was frequently used for positive self-evaluation of these countries’ influential social actors, and negative evaluation of neighboring countries. The chapter employs macro- and micro-linguistic analysis within the theoretical framework of critical discourse analysis and multimodal analysis.
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Chapter 10. Representation of unaccompanied migrant children from Central America in the United States
Media vs. migrant perspectives
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Theresa Catalano
Catalano, Theresa
Theresa
Catalano
University of Arizona
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Jessica Mitchell-McCollough
Mitchell-McCollough, Jessica
Jessica
Mitchell-McCollough
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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Central America
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media discourse
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multimodal critical discourse analysis
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Unaccompanied migrant children
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This chapter examines the representation of unaccompanied minors fleeing Central America (namely Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador) in U.S. online national news sources over a one-year period and compares this to the way these children talk about their own perceptions of migration and their motivation for moving. Data collection consisted of online news reports on unaccompanied minors from Central America in the United States as well as interviews with children collected from the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and other humanitarian organizations. Multimodal critical discourse analysis reveals a qualitative difference in discourse (e.g., use of metaphor, metonymy, deixis and visual elements) that varies depending on whether the sources are media reports or personal accounts from the children themselves.
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Virtual crisis experience
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Chapter 11. Displaced Ukrainians
Russo-Ukrainian discussions of victims from the conflict zone in Eastern Ukraine
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Ludmilla A'Beckett
A'Beckett, Ludmilla
Ludmilla
A'Beckett
University of the Free State
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catastrophe scenario
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disparaging expressions
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humanitarianism
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negativisation
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numerical elements
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official media
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Russia
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scroungers
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social media
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stereotypes
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Ukraine
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This paper compares several discourse representations of migrants in the British media with the data on Ukrainian displaced people from the conflict zone in Eastern Ukraine. The comparison shows that mainstream media in Russia and Ukraine attempt to depict displaced Ukrainians sympathetically, to win the hearts and minds of the people from the disputed conflict zone and to evoke approval from the international community. Participants in online debates in both countries actively use different techniques of negativisation of the images of migrants. They often either rely on a novel vocabulary for abuses or adapt old disparaging expressions activating cultural prejudices. The paper concludes that Russian and Ukrainian sets of abuse developed during the confrontation reinforce the specifics of the national vision of the conflict development.
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Chapter 12. Preaching from a distant pulpit
The European migrant crisis seen through a <i>New York Times</i> editorial and reader comments
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Michael S. Boyd
Boyd, Michael S.
Michael S.
Boyd
Università Roma Tre
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2015 European migrant crisis
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Corpus Linguistics
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Critical Discourse Analysis
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Editorials
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New Media
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Text World Theory
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On 18 September 2015, in the midst of the greatest movement of refugees and migrants that Europe has seen since the Second World War, <i>The New York Times</i> 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.
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Chapter 13. Discourses of immigration and integration in German newspaper comments
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Janet M. Fuller
Fuller, Janet M.
Janet M.
Fuller
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
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Ethnonational ideologies
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German identity
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Immigration
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Integration
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This chapter employs a critical, constructivist theoretical perspective to address how online commenters on articles in the liberal newspaper <i>Die Zeit</i> characterize immigrants, integration, and German identity. While the formerly dominant ethnonational ideology about German identity is now in the minority, there is nonetheless a strong tendency to categorize and characterize immigrant background residents according to ethnonational and religious criteria. A hierarchy of immigrants has emerged, with a discourse that positions Muslims in general, and Turks in particular, as the unintegrated Other. Because Germanness is defined in opposition to Muslim practices, integration for such residents is impossible. However, the presence of competing discourses is significant; through voices that point out discrimination and view integration as a two-way process, social change may be enacted.
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Chapter 14. “They have lived in our street for six years now and still don’t speak a work [!] of English”
Scenarios of alleged linguistic underperformance as part of anti-immigrant discourses
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Andreas Musolff
Musolff, Andreas
Andreas
Musolff
University of East Anglia
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computer-mediated communication
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culture mix
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immigration
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migration
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multiculturalism
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multilingualism
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on-line forums
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scenario
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superdiversity
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Whilst sociolinguistic superdiversity is often viewed as an almost irreversible global development, there may be a question mark over whether the ‘mix of cultures’, which mass migration allegedly fosters, does in fact lead to an acceptance of multilingualism and/or multiculturalism in the respective societies. On the basis of public discourse data from press media and Internet forums, this paper explores popular attitudes the effects of mass immigration, which appear to express an endorsement of monolingual/monocultural societies. Using methods of argumentation theory, pragmatics and discourse-historical triangulation, the article argues that findings of a global rise in superdiversity as regards usage data need to be complemented by studies of divergent perception patterns at local/national levels.
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