The Representation of ´Refugees´ and ´Migrants´ in European National Media Discourses from 2015 to 2017: A Contrastive Approach (Corpus Linguistics)

ISBN-13: 9783662667743 / Angielski

Annamária Fábián

Opis

Though the ´refugee crisis´ was discussed in many countries e.g. in Greece, Hungary, Italy and Spain long before 2015, it began to receive cross-European press coverage only after Angela Merkel´s statement ´Wir schaffen das!´ on the August 30th 2015.

This data-based study focuses on, how journalists report on and leading politicians make statements about ´refugees’, ‘migrants’ and ‘asylum seekers’ in media and frame these humans after Angela Merkels´ sentence in 2015 until the end of 2017. This volume uses mainly Corpus Linguistics but also Communicative Science for the analysis of labelling strategies and the usage of words, collocations and grammar systems used by journalists and politicians in different European countries in comparison. This empirical volume pictures language specific variation and change of labels. To enable a contrastive study between the press discourses of many European countries, every chapter analyses the data consisting of newspaper articles describing the discourse of a particular country, including discourses of some ‘transit countries’ around the borders of the Schengen Area of the European Union, which barely have been covered in other studies.

Spis treści

Introduction.- The Austrian Press Discourse on Refugees, Migrants, and Migration.- The Belgian Media Discourse on Refugees, Migrants and Migration..- Framing effects in the French Media Discourse on „refugees”, „migrants” and „migration”.- The Representation of ´refugees´ in the German Media Discourse from 2015 to 2017.- The Representation of ´refugees´, ´migrants´ and ´migration’ in the British Media Discourse of 2015.- The representation of ´refugees´ and ´migrants´ in the Italian Media Discourse.- ‘Asylum seekers’ or ‘fortune seekers’?.- The representation of ´refugees´ and ´migrants´ in the Polish Media Discourse.- Media Discourse on the representation of ´asylum seekers´, ´refugees´ and ´migrants´ in Serbian Media.- Europa fortaleza or política de puertas abiertas.- ´Refugees´, ´migrants´ and ´asylum seekers´ in the Swedish Media Discourse.- The representation of ´refugees´ and ´migrants´ in Turkish online media discourse.

O autorze

Dr. Annamaria Fabian is Post-Doc in German Linguistics at the University of Bayreuth and Principal Investigator of the project „Digital communicative strategies in Social Media for the inclusion of people with disability“ and member of the Ínstitute of Digital Transformation (Bavarian Research Council).

Blurb

Though the refugee crisis was discussed in many countries e.g. in Greece, Hungary, Italy and Spain long before 2015, it began to receive cross- European press coverage only after Angela Merkel’s statement ‘Wir schaffen das!’ on the August 30th 2015

This data-based study focuses on, how journalists report on and leading politicians make statements about refugees, migrants and asylum seekers in media and frame these humans after Angela Merkels’ sentence in 2015 until the end of 2017. This volume uses mainly Corpus Linguistics but also Communicative Science for the analysis of labelling strategies and the usage of words, collocations and grammar systems used by journalists and politicians in different European countries in comparison. This empirical volume pictures language specific variation and change of labels. To enable a contrastive study between the press discourses of many European countries, every chapter analyses the data consisting of newspaper articles describing the discourse of a particular country, including discourses of some transit countries around the borders of the Schengen Area of the European Union, which barely have been covered in other studies.

The Editor

Dr. Annamaria Fabian is Post-Doc in German Linguistics at the University of Bayreuth and Principal Investigator of the project „Digital communicative strategies in Social Media for the inclusion of people with disability“ and member of the Ínstitute of Digital Transformation (Bavarian Research Council).