Migration and media : : discourses about identities in crisis /

Migration and media : : discourses about identities in crisis / / edited by Lorella Viola, Andreas Musolff.

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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, lega...

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Superior document:Discourse approaches to politics, society and culture ; Volume 81
TeilnehmendeR:
Viola, Lorella,
Musolff, Andreas,
Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam ;, Philadelphia : : John Benjamins Publishing Company,, [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture ; Volume 81.
Physical Description:1 online resource (374 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Migration and Media
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Table of contents
  • Preface
  • References
  • Introduction: Migration and crisis identity
  • References
  • Part I. Framing migration as a crisis of identity I: Representational strategies
  • Chapter 1. A comparative analysis of the keyword multicultural(ism) in French, British, German and Italian migration discourse
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Background: Previous literature relating to multicultural/ism in the UK, France, Germany and Italy
  • 3. Data &amp
  • methodology
  • 4. Analysis
  • 4.1 Frequency
  • 4.2 Collocations
  • 4.3 Word forms in comparison
  • 5. Discussion and conclusion
  • Appendix A. Comparative frequencies of multicultural/ism per language
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Chapter 2. Polentone vs terrone: A discourse-historical analysis of media representation of Italian internal migration
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The socio-historical context of the North-South conflict
  • 3. Methodology and resources
  • 4. The analysis
  • 4.1 Polentone vs terrone: The lexicographic analysis
  • 4.2 Polentone vs terrone: The corpus analysis
  • 5. Conclusions
  • References
  • Chapter 3. Featuring immigrants and citizens: A comparison between Spanish and English primary legislation and administration information texts (2007-2011)
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The language to construe the identity of immigrants
  • 3. Critical Discourse Analysis and corpus linguistics
  • 4. Methodology
  • 5. Results
  • 5.1 Collocations of migrants in UK legislation and information texts
  • 5.2 Grammatical categorization of migrants in UK legislation and information texts
  • 5.3 Collocations of citizens in UK legislation and information texts
  • 5.4 Grammatical categorization of citizens in UK legislation and information texts.
  • 5.5 Collocations of "inmigrante" in Spanish legistation and information texts
  • 5.6 Grammatical categorization of "inmigrante" in Spanish legislation and information texts
  • 5.7 Collocations of "ciudadano" in Spanish legislation and information texts
  • 5.8 Grammatical categorization of citizen in Spanish legislation and information texts
  • 6. Discussion
  • 6.1 Representation of immigrants/migrants and inmigrantes in the British and Spanish legislation and information texts
  • 6.2 Representation of citizens and ciudadanos in the British and Spanish legislation and information texts
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Part II. Framing migration as a crisis of identity II: Argumentation, pragmatic and figurative strategies
  • Chapter 4. A humanitarian disaster or invasion of Europe?: 2015 migrant crisis in the British press
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Previous research on immigration discourse
  • 3. Methodology
  • 4. Background to the events
  • 5. Data
  • 6. Analysis
  • 6.1 Analysis of the corpus of the death of Aylan Kurdi
  • 6.2 Analysis of the corpus of the Cologne sexual assaults
  • 7. Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 5. Aspects of threat construction in the Polish anti-immigration discourse
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Discourse space: Cognitive representations and the forcing of worldviews
  • 2.1 Deictic Space Theory (DST)
  • 2.2 Proximization Theory (PT)
  • 3. Threat construction in the L&amp
  • J discourse: From 'cultural unbelonging' to 'terrorist risk'
  • 3.1 The corpus for analysis
  • 3.2 The US
  • 3.3 The THEM
  • 3.4 The THEM against US proximization scenario
  • 4. Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 6. Gender, metaphor and migration in media representations: Discursive manipulations of the Other
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Migration, metaphor and evaluation
  • 3. Gender and the media
  • 4. Data and method
  • 5. Findings and discussion.
  • 5.1 Migration metaphor use from the male perspective
  • 5.2 Migration metaphor use from the female perspective
  • 6. Concluding remarks
  • References
  • Part III. Multimodal crisis communication: Migration discourses across different media
  • Chapter 7. Practical reasoning and metaphor in TV discussions on immigration in Greece: Exchanges and changes
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Methodology of metaphor analysis
  • 2.1 Linguistic, conceptual, discursive-communicative analysis
  • 2.2 Conceptual analysis and Scenarios (3rd stage)
  • 2.3 Discursive-communicative analysis, practical reasoning and metaphor shifting (4th stage)
  • 3. Analysis
  • 4. Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Chapter 8. The Great Wall of Europe: Verbal and multimodal potrayals of Europe's migrant crisis in Serbian media discourse
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Theoretical framework
  • 3. Data collection and method
  • 4. Results and discussion
  • 4.1 The fortress europe scenario
  • 4.2 The berlin wall scenario
  • 4.3 A multimodal portrayal of the fortress europe and berlin wall scenarios
  • 5. Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 9. Representations of the 2015/2016 "migrant crisis" on the online portals of Croatian and Serbian public broadcasters
  • 1. Introduction and background
  • 2. Theoretical and methodological framework
  • 3. Results and discussion: Representation of social actors and social actions
  • 3.1 Naming strategies, determination, and functionalization
  • 3.2 (Moving) water metaphors
  • 3.3 Representing social actions: Non-agency and conditional agency
  • 3.4 Visual presentation of social actors and social actions
  • 4. Concluding remarks
  • References
  • Internet sources
  • RTS and HRT articles
  • Chapter 10. Representation of unaccompanied migrant children from Central America in the United states: Media vs. migrant perspectives
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Background.
  • 3. Relevant research
  • 4. Theoretical foundations
  • 5. Method
  • 6. Findings
  • 6.1 National coverage (2016)
  • 6.2 Counter voices: Metaphors of migrant discourse
  • 7. Conclusion
  • Appendix A. Texts used in the corpus
  • References
  • Part IV. Online debates about migration: Virtual crisis experience
  • Chapter 11. Displaced Ukrainians: Russo-Ukrainian discussions of victims from the conflict zone in Eastern Ukraine
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Data and method
  • 3. "Numbers", "figures", and "masses": Are they perceived as a threat?
  • 3.1 Numbers and figures
  • 3.2 Masses of water
  • 4. Agents of evil as activators of topoi of economic burden and threat
  • 4.1 Use of "parasite"-terminology
  • 4.2 Russian stereotypes about Ukrainians
  • 4.3 New names for terrorists and victims of propaganda
  • 5. Representations of victims and aggressors
  • 5.1 Refugees as victims
  • 5.2 Blending victims and persecutors
  • 5.3 IDPs as supporters of the aggressor
  • 6. Conclusions
  • References
  • Chapter 12. Preaching from a distant pulpit: The European migrant crisis seen through a New York Times editorial and reader comments
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Theoretical background
  • 2.1 CDA and media discourse
  • 2.2 New(s) media and the editorial
  • 2.3 Text world theory
  • 3. Data and methodology
  • 4. Data analysis
  • 4.1 Editorial analysis
  • 4.2 Comment analysis
  • 4.3 Comment analysis
  • 5. Discussion and preliminary conclusions
  • References
  • Chapter 13. Discourses of immigration and integration in German newspaper comments
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Background: German immigration, citizenship policy, and integration
  • 2.1 Terms: A rose by any other name
  • 3. Theoretical background
  • 4. Data and methodology
  • 5. Integration in Germany: Themes
  • 5.1 Dissatisfaction with the state of integration in Germany
  • 5.2 Whose responsibility?
  • 5.3 What is integration?.
  • 5.4 Good immigrants and bad
  • 5.5 Refugees
  • 5.6 What does it mean to be German, anyway?
  • 6. Discussion
  • References
  • 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
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Data and methodology
  • 3. Arguments about and scenarios of immigration to Britain
  • 4. Conclusions and tasks for the linguistic investigation of attitudes towards migration-related language issues
  • Acknowledgement
  • References
  • Notes on contributors
  • Index.

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