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Migration and media : discourses about identities in crisis
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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 s...
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.
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- Creator
- edited by Lorella Viola, Andreas Musolff
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- English
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- 1st ed
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2019]
- ©2019
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (374 pages)
- ISBNs
- 9789027262707, 9027262705, 9027202478
- 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 & -- 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& -- 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