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Publication details [#55124]

Stewart, Craig O., Margaret J. Pitts and Helena Osborne. 2011. Mediated Intergroup Conflict: The Discursive Construction of “Illegal Immigrants” in a Regional U.S. Newspaper. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 22 (6) : 8–27.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
SAGE Publications

Annotation

This study employs an intergroup communication framework, to explore how a regional newspaper in southeastern Virginia discursively constructs the “illegal immigrant” as a metonym for Latino immigrants. The analysis also demonstrates some of the ways that media discourse affects perceived intergroup menaces at the local and national planes.