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Investigating the representation of migrants in the UK and Italian press: A cross-linguistic corpus-assisted discourse analysis
This paper is a cross-linguistic corpus-assisted discourse study of the representation of migrants in the Italian and UK press and it adopts a two-stage methodological approach. In the first phase, the number of references to nationalities which collocate with refugees, asylum seekers, immigrants, migrants (and Italian equivalents) are calculated and this information is subsequently used to identify any ‘mismatch’ between the amount of attention that migrants from a given country receive in the media and the official population estimates. In the second, and most extensive stage, the representations of the foregrounded nationalities are analysed through the moral panic framework. Results show an extensive negative representation of some groups, but there is no evidence of a fully iterated moral panic relating to any of the nationalities investigated.
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International Journal of Corpus LinguisticsISSN
1384-6655Publisher
John Benjamins PublishingExternal DOI
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3Volume
19Page range
368-400Department affiliated with
- English Publications
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2014-09-18First Open Access (FOA) Date
2018-05-25First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2014-09-18Usage metrics
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